Martin Pitt wrote: > This is a bit better in Edgy now: > > cupsys (1.2.1-4) unstable; urgency=medium > [...] > * Add snmp to backend choices. Because I don't make sure this backend > is stable, the default is disabled. Use dpkg-reconfigure cupsys to > enable. (closes: #376496) > > So you can manually enable it. Noone known to me tried it yet, though. > Maybe you can play around with it and tell us about your experiences > with this? If it behaves well, I'm fine with enabling it by default. > > ** Changed in: cupsys (Ubuntu) > Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed > > I got it to work fine as long as the printer is on the same subnet. According to the cups mail list getting it to work for printers on other subnets may well be dependent on network switches being configured to allow snmp broadcasts.
I manually added a softlink. Hopefully the next update won't disable it. -- the snmp backend should be installed in /usr/lib/cups/backend https://launchpad.net/bugs/54259 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
