[opensuse] printer problem, 9_3
It drives me crazy. I can't seem to print from Suse 9.3. My main machine is down with unknown problems, and I have only the Suse machine. I brought the HP 970 Cxi color printer over, plugged it in, Suse found new hardware, printed most of a test page, and then decided to spit everything out and not touch it again. Running on USB, but I can try parallel. When I tell it to print, nothing happens. When I go to YaST, it comes up with parallel printer checked, and I move it to USB --altho there are a lot of USB's available, and I don't know what any of them stand for. When I go to test, it either prints in very light print, or not at all, altho paper comes out. But when I try to print from KMail, nothing at all happens. Would it make more sense to go to parallel print? I can do that. This machine printed fine to a parallel HP Laser Jet when I had 10.0 on it, now it won't print over that length of cable, so I moved the other (color) printer right next to the machine, and plugged in USB. Since the XP machine is down, I really need a system that can reliably print. What can I do to find out what the problem is and fix it? I'm using a Fry's computer with an additional 512 MB RAM, everything else is like I bought it, without an OS installed, about a year ago. Thanx for any help-- doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
It drives me crazy. I can't seem to print from Suse 9.3. My main machine is down with unknown problems, and I have only the Suse machine. I brought the HP 970 Cxi color printer over, plugged it in, Suse found new hardware, printed most of a test page, and then decided to spit everything out and not touch it again. 9.3 should have no problem printing via the USB or parallel. The proper driver is the HPIJS driver (or the HPLIP driver). The problem appears to me to be hardware related. Make sure you have sufficient ink. You might also force the printer to go into a self-test and cleaning mode manually. Then deinstall the printer, and go into YaST and install the
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:28:19 -0500 Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote: printer from scratch. There is a limit to the length of the USB and parallel cable, but in the past I have used a 30 ft. parallel with no problem, but for an initial test, use a known good cable well within the maximum length. IEEE 1284 I believe is 30ft. USB length should be within 5 meters (about 16 feet). -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 01:28 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
It drives me crazy. I can't seem to print from Suse 9.3. My main machine is down with unknown problems, and I have only the Suse machine. I brought the HP 970 Cxi color printer over, plugged it in, Suse found new hardware, printed most of a test page, and then decided to spit everything out and not touch it again.
http://localhost:631/printers And forget Yast. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFaN10tTMYHG2NR9URAgl2AJ9G45ctfLw8mhfgAZ8teYuZaTxmWQCgl2Sr Xbj/0HLRe3oonbPgISOEnE0= =BzUu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Saturday 25 November 2006 19:18, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 01:28 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
It drives me crazy. I can't seem to print from Suse 9.3. My main machine is down with unknown problems, and I have only the Suse machine. I brought the HP 970 Cxi color printer over, plugged it in, Suse found new hardware, printed most of a test page, and then decided to spit everything out and not touch it again.
And forget Yast.
I get a message to put in my username and pasword. I have only used a couple of usernames and basically one password for everything, but this site doesn't like any combination I can come up with. Now what? This whole deal stinks. I am the only user of this computer. Nobody else is in the house except my dog, and his paws are too big to hit the keys. There really needs to be a "no user name, no password" setup for those of us who can't remember and don't need these things. And a way to back out of this trap, for those in it, like me. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Doug McGarrett wrote:
On Saturday 25 November 2006 19:18, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 01:28 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
It drives me crazy. I can't seem to print from Suse 9.3. My main machine is down with unknown problems, and I have only the Suse machine. I brought the HP 970 Cxi color printer over, plugged it in, Suse found new hardware, printed most of a test page, and then decided to spit everything out and not touch it again. http://localhost:631/printers
And forget Yast.
I get a message to put in my username and pasword. I have only used a couple of usernames and basically one password for everything, but this site doesn't like any combination I can come up with. Now what?
Login: root Password: (roots password) Mike
This whole deal stinks. I am the only user of this computer. Nobody else is in the house except my dog, and his paws are too big to hit the keys. There really needs to be a "no user name, no password" setup for those of us who can't remember and don't need these things. And a way to back out of this trap, for those in it, like me.
--doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 25 November 2006 20:50, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I get a message to put in my username and pasword. I have only used a couple of usernames and basically one password for everything, but this site doesn't like any combination I can come up with. Now what?
Hi Doug, Here's what I think may be a related item from my personal 'hardware tips' archive:
As root, in a console run "lppasswd -a <username>", resulting in a prompt for a password followed by a prompt to verify it. The password must be 6 characters long and must contain at least one letter and one number.
Then, as that user, connect to the cupsd admin port, http://localhost:631. (It is not necessary to restart cups after creating the cups account for this user.) Click on "Printers", black button along the top row of the page. Find the appropriate printer, and click on the "Configure printer" button; you will be prompted for a username/password, which you have just added with lppasswd. Once you are authenticated, confirm/adjust your printer settings and click "Continue" to finish the task.
hth & regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 20:50 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
And forget Yast.
I get a message to put in my username and pasword. I have only used a couple of usernames and basically one password for everything, but this site doesn't like any combination I can come up with. Now what?
Then define a password! Use "lppasswd username", as root. And no, the root login/pass does not work in this situation, not even he can enter.
This whole deal stinks. I am the only user of this computer. Nobody else is in the house except my dog, and his paws are too big to hit the keys. There really needs to be a "no user name, no password" setup for those of us who can't remember and don't need these things. And a way to back out of this trap, for those in it, like me.
I thought you already knew of this trick, or I would have told you before hand. Notice that cups provides help: "http://localhost:631/" and select help there. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFaPeOtTMYHG2NR9URAsguAKCLJHz95HPNeYcM93wY7134k68mHwCgli6+ K4D2mNRJ5/pwgPMBkeo8Drg= =aX/e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Carl Hartung -
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Doug McGarrett -
Jerry Feldman -
Mike Noble