On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:01, David Johanson wrote:
Lucky me, I got a new color laser (Panasonic KX-CL500) for Christmas, but it only ships with drivers for you know what OS. So I am requesting some advice on how to set it up under Linux, in particular the 9.x (0,1,and 2) of SuSE.
It's connected directly to my router and has it's own address, but I'm totally at a loss as to which options I use to set it up using YaST2.
You should be able to use YAST to setup the printer. This is a rough guess for the settings you need. YAST ---> hardware --> Printer Select Other(not Detected) and press Configure Select --> Print Directly to a Network Printer Select --> Direct TCP Port Printing Now try using the "Lookup" and select "lookup all hosts" and see if your printer is selected otherwise enter directly the IP number of your printer in "Host name of the print server" and see if that works. The only thing that may be a problem is the default IP number of the Printer may not be compatible with your network. In the documents you should find something on changing the IP address of the printer. Try pinging the printer first and see if you get a responce. That will tell you that the printer can be contacted or not. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------