Re: [gentoo-user] Network printer not being found

2020-10-31 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 31 October 2020 12:30:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printer not being found

2020-10-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printer not being found

2020-10-30 Thread Michael
On Friday, 30 October 2020 16:49:31 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 30 October 2020 11:51:32 GMT Michael wrote: > > You need to add your user to the lpadmin group. > > All right. I've never had to do so before, but I have now. I've also set > USE=zeroconf on /net-print/cups and remerged it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printer not being found

2020-10-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 30 October 2020 11:51:32 GMT Michael wrote: > You need to add your user to the lpadmin group. All right. I've never had to do so before, but I have now. I've also set USE=zeroconf on /net-print/cups and remerged it. Both cupsd and cups-browsed are in the default run level. I've even t

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printer not being found

2020-10-30 Thread Michael
On Friday, 30 October 2020 11:20:05 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > [Some snipping] > > On Thursday, 29 October 2020 19:25:47 GMT Michael wrote: > > Have a look here in case there is some step you've missed out: > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Printing > > Yes, I've done that. > > > Cups usua

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printer not being found

2020-10-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
[Some snipping] On Thursday, 29 October 2020 19:25:47 GMT Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:16:17 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Before my trials with booting, and eventually rebuilding everything from > > the ground up, my Lexmark C2425 printer was working fine. Now the KDE > > syst

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printer not being found

2020-10-29 Thread William Kenworthy
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. > > T

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printer not being found

2020-10-29 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:16:17 GMT 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 pingin

[gentoo-user] Network printer not being found

2020-10-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
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