Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (287 mails)

[Ralph De Witt <ralphdewitt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Saturday 21 August 2004 12:58 am, Peter wrote:
> Ralph De Witt wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 June 2004 07:15 am, Eric Jahn wrote:
> >>>I use Suse 9.1, but I'm wondering why you wouldn't want to use yast for
> >>> for setting up your printer.  I use it at a Windows-based office to
> >>> print to both network and local printers and Yast made it a piece of
> >>> cake.
> >
> > Eric:
> > I am trying to set up a HP PSC 2110 all in one Printer, Copier, Scanner,
> > and the all in one machine use HPOJ driver and the setup instruction say
> > to use webmin (ie: localhost:631) and specificly caution against using
> > Yast or Kde. It also cautions against using a USB device as the
> > connection for the printer. The connection device in my case is ptal
> > mlc:usb:PSC_2100_Series . This connection device is only seen by webmin
> > and not Yast or KDE printer set up.
>
> This is interesting (I had a similar fight with SuSE 9.0 and an
> all-in-one from HP).  Could you please tell me where you found those
> instructions?  I'm about to re-install that system with SuSE 9.1 (yes,
> not upgrade) and although I hope the problem has been addressed it's
> always a good idea to have a backup solution ;-).
>
> As an aside - wouldn't it be good if all those scanners and devices
> would have their buttons work under Linux?
>
> Regards,   /// P ///
Peter:
I believe the instructions were in the hpoj documentation. From the HPOJ site.  
"The hpoj setup and reference documentation is now found in HTML format
in the "doc" subdirectory of the source package.  To get started, simply
point your favorite web browser or HTML viewer to the "index.html" file
in the "doc" directory." And from there documention under set up. "Newer 
versions of CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) do not print to arbitrary 
"file" destinations. Therefore, the generic ptal-printd-based setup procedure 
described above will not work with CUPS. Mark Horn contributed a CUPS ptal 
backend driver which enables CUPS to discover and print to hpoj-managed 
devices.

First of all, you must restart CUPS after configuring devices with "ptal-init 
setup" so CUPS will notice the new device(s) and allow print queue creation.

Next, enter the CUPS administration web interface and set up the print 
queue(s). User reports indicate that other utilities such as kups or YAST2 do 
not properly handle devices managed by the CUPS ptal backend.

Important: Be sure to use the CUPS ptal backend for setting up hpoj-managed 
devices. The "traditional" parallel, usb, and file backends will likely not 
work." These instruction came from the version hpoj-0.90 instruction. I 
believe that they would be similar for the current version 0.91. Good luck on 
your installation.
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