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