Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3901 mails)

[Doug B <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 01 January 2005 07:01 pm, 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.
>

My only experience here is with jet direct type printers, but worth a 
try.

yast > undetected configure > print directly to network printer > direct 
tcp printing > Let it try to look up a host name.  If it doesn't find 
it, try putting it's ip address > port 9100 > Name it (fields here are 
whatever you want) and I do local filtering > Select manufacturer and 
model (hopefully it will be there.... if not someone else will have to 
help with that) >configure printer settings (I have test printer fail 
here but the printer still work from apps) > OK

With luck, that will do it!   Then again, yours may set up entirely 
different.

Have fun!
Doug