On 29/10/20 10:16 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Afternoon all, > > Before my trials with booting, and eventually rebuilding everything from the > ground up, my Lexmark C2425 printer was working fine. Now the KDE system > settings printer applet can't detect it, even though pinging it works. > > Then when I point firefox to localhost:631 cups's behaviour has changed. If I > click Adding Printers and Classes, instead of a dialogue to let me add a > printer I now get a help page telling me how to do it at the command line. > > Even if I do manage to add the printer, cups reports that it isn't > responding. > I take this to mean I'm not using the right protocol. I've tried IPP, IPPS, > HTTP and HTTPS, following that help page. > > Package.use is the same as before, and I've tried with cups-browsed both > running and not. > > What am I missing? > Sounds like to clicked on the (somewhat fuzzily named) "adding Printers and Classes" on the main page - thats actually the help page which you described.
Try clicking on Administration on the top line and then add printer. BillK
