Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-10 Thread karl
Wol: ... > A couple of things to remember: > > Gentoo IS a pita to install and run compared to most other distros - ... That really depends. Other distros might not have what you want or they force upon you desicions you don't like. Just beeing easy to install and running something irrelevant do

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-10 Thread Wols Lists
On 10/09/2022 01:18, Paul Colquhoun wrote: 2) Remind us again why you still try to run Gentoo when you obviously dislike it. snark :-) A couple of things to remember: Gentoo IS a pita to install and run compared to most other distros - I've had a brand new laptop lying around for 6 months wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-09 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Friday, September 9, 2022 2:52:01 A.M. AEST Alan Grimes wrote: > Ok. I'm going to have to do it. I'm going to have to get my blessed > printer working. > > It is the finest laser printer money can buy. God himself uses it to > process the paperwork involved in assigning souls to either heaven o

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-09 Thread David M. Fellows
>On Thursday, 8 September 2022 21:40:25 BST Wols Lists wrote: >> On 08/09/2022 21:24, Lee wrote: >> > Who needs to go to the hassle maintaining a printer of their own, buying >> > cartridges, paper etc? I set up an online account at my neighborhood >> > Kinkos, and I just upload whatever docs I nee

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 8 September 2022 21:40:25 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 08/09/2022 21:24, Lee wrote: > > Who needs to go to the hassle maintaining a printer of their own, buying > > cartridges, paper etc? I set up an online account at my neighborhood > > Kinkos, and I just upload whatever docs I need and

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-08 Thread Ramon Fischer
Hello Alan, (meanwhile, Windows can print to the thing effortlessly) I guess, that you are going to configure a network printer. I will try to explain you my setup; maybe you or others can derive something from this. Make sure, that the user, which you configure the printer with, is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-08 Thread Wols Lists
On 08/09/2022 21:24, Lee wrote: Who needs to go to the hassle maintaining a printer of their own, buying cartridges, paper etc? I set up an online account at my neighborhood Kinkos, and I just upload whatever docs I need and they print out in HD whatever I need for pennies a page. Ymmv. YMMV.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-08 Thread Lee
Who needs to go to the hassle maintaining a printer of their own, buying cartridges, paper etc? I set up an online account at my neighborhood Kinkos, and I just upload whatever docs I need and they print out in HD whatever I need for pennies a page. Ymmv. Lee 😎 On Thu, Sep 8, 2022, 11:05 AM tasty

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-08 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 8 September 2022 19:04:42 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2022-09-08 12:52-0400 Alan Grimes wrote: > > […] > > > > Right now linux is so broken that the CUPS web interface will deny > > all attempts to administer the printer and reject any password. The > > config file is written in moonspe

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-08 Thread tastytea
On 2022-09-08 12:52-0400 Alan Grimes wrote: > […] > > Right now linux is so broken that the CUPS web interface will deny > all attempts to administer the printer and reject any password. The > config file is written in moonspeak, I just need the motherfucking > thing to say yes when I tell it to