On 28/02/17 11:45 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
.... to be continued after experimentation ...
Well that was marginally more fun than trying to give a cat a pill, but about the same level of frustration. I did, however manage to do this without getting my hands clawed and blood all over the carpet, so there is that. Mind you, openSUSE doesn't purr-rr-rr-rr. So I searched out the Bother site and downloaded a program called linux-brprinter-installer-2.1.1-1 which is a humongous shell script. That brought in hl5170dnlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm cupswrapperHL5170DN-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm and asked me what mechanism I wanted. I chose socket:<ip address of printer on the LAN> Next time round I might try something else, IPP, LPD, whatever. It then tweaked CUPS and I had a new printer. The test page seemed to pay not attention the 8x11 even though it said on the print out that it did, I had to manually feed a sheet. I think it wanted something longer, 8x17? I then printed a single web page. It worked. BUT, and this is a killing BUT .... the status says Idle - "Waiting for printer to finish." So I flutz around. Other than restarting CUPS or deleting the printer it insists on that and won't print any more. Not even if I set up another printer. I think the problem lies in CUPS. My highly developed spider sense leads me to suspect that. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org