On Friday, 30 October 2020 18:23:38 GMT Michael wrote: > On Friday, 30 October 2020 16:49:31 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > We're confusing means of communication with the printer, or I am. The in- > kernel USB Printer support is deprecated and most printer software no longer > support it.
The menuconfig Help page gives no hint of that. -->8 > > I found a way, eventually. I had to declare the printer manually, under > > Add Printer. I chose ipp and gave it the URL ipp://<ip-addr>/ipp/print. > > URLs imply a network connection using an ethernet cable, which is what I > assume you were trying to set up in the first instance. Avahi/zeroconf/upnp > will announce the printer on the network and as long as cups is compiled > with USE="zeroconf" it should show up when you go to Administration > Add > Printer. It didn't. That's the problem - well, the first one anyway. I think I'll recover a kernel config from some months ago and see if that helps. More straws being clutched at... -- Regards, Peter.
