I'll give it a try tomorrow (getting late here) but this is a local usb connected printer and I thought "browse" is used to allow cups to find or offer printers to other hosts across the network.
BillK On 04/08/13 20:56, Urs Schutz wrote: > On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 10:42:54 +0800 > William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > >> On 04/08/13 09:42, walt wrote: >>> On 08/02/2013 07:23 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: >>>> I have a long running machine with a local epson usb >>>> printer using the kernel lpusb >>>> >>>> Using cups <=1.5.2-r4 I can print ... upgrade to >>>> 1.6.2-r* and cups cant see the usb printer. The only >>>> errors in the cups log are to do with systemd service >>>> files which I masked a couple of days ago - the usb >>>> problem was happening before though. >>>> >>>> I tried both with and without the kernel module and >>>> usb use flag with no difference. I cant create a new >>>> printer in 1.6.2 because the usb port doesnt show up >>>> at all. >>> >>> Does the printer appear in dmesg when you plug it in? >>> >>> >>> > snip... >> >> >> I cant confirm (I have rolled back as I need to print >> today) but believe the scanner (xsane) in this printer >> still works fine with either version of cups (its basicly >> independent) >> > > Did you read that? > >> eselect news read 30 > 2013-06-30-cups16 > Title Printer browsing in net-print/cups-1.6 > Author Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> > Posted 2013-06-30 > Revision 1 > > net-print/cups-1.6 no longer supports automatic remote > printers or implicit classes via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP > protocols, i.e. "network browsing". > > The browsing functionality can be restored by running > cups-browsed from net-print/cups-filters as a separate > daemon (just add its init script to your default runlevel). > By default cups-browsed uses the net-print/cups-1.5 browse > protocol, but it can also utilize zeroconf (if the zeroconf > use flag is set). See /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf for > configuration. > > Of course, directly specifying the location of your > printers in the cups interface works as well. > > Seems to me that you could try as root: >> /etc/init.d/cups-browsed start > > > Urs > >
