Re: cannot add printers w/ CUPS

2002-01-01 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:34:46PM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: | On Tuesday 01 January 2002 07:15 pm, dman wrote: | | > Are you using devfs? (if you don't know, then you aren't) | | nope -- just plain ext2 :-). devfs is a magic, non-existant, filesystem, similar to /proc. | > Do you | > have

Re: cannot add printers w/ CUPS

2002-01-01 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 07:15 pm, dman wrote: > Are you using devfs? (if you don't know, then you aren't) nope -- just plain ext2 > Do you > have the 'lp' kernel module loaded? Does > echo "hello world" >> /dev/lp0 > cause anything to happen? I don't know if I have the lp kernel mod

Re: cannot add printers w/ CUPS

2002-01-01 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:06:04PM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: | On Tuesday 01 January 2002 06:58 pm, dman wrote: | > Does the web interface work? (http://localhost:631) | | It works in that I can display the page and navigate around, but it doesn't | successfully add a printer. Also, when I try

Re: cannot add printers w/ CUPS

2002-01-01 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 06:58 pm, dman wrote: > Does the web interface work? (http://localhost:631) It works in that I can display the page and navigate around, but it doesn't successfully add a printer. Also, when I try to use the "add printer" feature, it doesn't display my parallel port

Re: cannot add printers w/ CUPS

2002-01-01 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 06:40:21PM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: | Just installed cupsys and related packages and am trying to add my first | printer, an HP LaserJet 6L. | | I've tried using the PPDs available through linuxprinting.org as well as the | generic laserjet.ppd included with CUPS. | | N

cannot add printers w/ CUPS

2002-01-01 Thread Kurt Lieber
Just installed cupsys and related packages and am trying to add my first printer, an HP LaserJet 6L. I've tried using the PPDs available through linuxprinting.org as well as the generic laserjet.ppd included with CUPS. Nothing seems to work -- here is the command syntax I'm using, as well as th