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