On 20150327_0237-0400, ken wrote: > On 03/26/2015 07:38 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > >I'm running Jessie, as close to plain vanilla as my hardware allows. > >I have a HP Laserjet 5MP. This is an ancient device. It has built-in > >firmware for Level 2 Postscript printing and a special socket for > >Apple Localtalk connection, but no USB. It is a sturdy old beast and > >was running nicely until quite recently. But in a special configuration > >that needs to be understood in order to give help: > > > >My main desktop computer on which I receive email, and create my own > >documents has *only* USB. I bought a special cable that has a USB to > >Centronics conversion dongle at one end. But I can't use it because the > >socket for Centronics on the printer is in recessed place in the > >printer where the dongle won't fit and I can't enlarge the place > >without sawing away parts of the printer framework that are necessary > >for the paper feed system to work. So, instead, I put into service an > >old micro-mini Dell (now running Jessie) and put CUPS on it, and > >configured it to be a print server. But all this was well before I had > >any idea that there would ever be anything like Jessie in my > >future. At first, after some fiddling, the print server worked under > >Jessie, but now it has stopped working. The printer continues to > >produce test pages when requesting them from the old Dell keyboard and > >in self-test mode by pushing buttons on the printer itself, not by > >typing at the computer keyboard. > > > >After installing the most recent upgrades to Jessie on both computers > >this morning, I tried to print a few pages from iceweasel and printing > >worked. But I also want to be able to print from Emacs, which I use to > >compose my emails, such as this one. Emacs told be that there was no > >default printer even though I had just selected the printer on the old > >Dell from a pick-list presented to be by the print user interface > >presented to me by the Emacs user interface. I think I should configure > >the Cups server on my desktop computer to indicate that that printer > >over on the old Dell is the one for Emacs. But how do I do that? > > > >I can't trust my own investigations to determine if there have been any > >recent changes in the Jessie CUPS packages in the recent past. I know > >there was a new version of CUPS at the time that Jessie entered pre-release > >freeze, and I pretty sure my system was working then and not something > >that I lost in my transition from Wheezy. And, of course, I'd like a > >more foreword looking suggestion than to re-install Wheezy. I'd like this > >fixed before Jessie release because I have a bad feeling that the longer > >I wait the further from the main-stream I will be. I need, with my old > >hardware, to be as close to the middle of the herd of users as I can be. > > > >The print driver for the HPLj-5MP that I have been using in recent years > >is the one with (recommended) in its listing in the pick-list of all HP > >print drivers in the localhost:631 web site on both computers. Beyond that > >I can't think of anything people might need to know about my set-up. I'd > >be glad to answer any questions about things that I haven't realized might > >be important. > > > >Please help > > > > The first thing to do is to set up printing from the machine you set up as a > print server. Can you do that? That is, can you bring up cups from its > keyboard and print a test page? This is more a proof a connectivity than a > test of the print server's cups setup, as the "print server" can serve > simply as a network node through which you connect from other machines on > your network to the printer. > > Once you can do that, you should be able to print from whatever other > printer(s) permitted on your network by configuring it/them for that print > server's IP address. You first need to ensure you can ping the print server > from your other machine(s). Once you can do that, then set up cups on the > print client(s).
I just had the experience of having composed a long email and loosing it. Thanks for the response. There is more to say if my computer is stable enough to get it sent. Thanks very much. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150328195747.ga10...@big.lan.gnu
