suse 8.2 networking

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 9:33 am, dep wrote:
> the printing subsystem in suse 8.2 is something that entirely
> confounds me, in that yast2 attempts in one module to configure both
> cups and non-cups printers. what's especially flaky about this is,
> well, that it's especially flaky; there ought to be either cups or
> not-cups, and my vote is for the former. the real strangeness comes
> in when the laserjet support is offered only as a non-cups option. my
> understanding of cups, though, is that it intercepts everything sent
> to a printer and does whatever it does to it, so i suspect that what
> i'm sending the printer is grinding through two filters. in cups with
> suse 7.x, yast2 produced a cups configuration that was just plain
> corrupt, and the only answer was to blow it all away and use a
> browser to configure the printer with the cups interface, whereupon
> it worked just fine. but the cups in suse 8.2 appears to be absent a
> laserjet (III, IIID) driver. it's just plain nutty. i'll go after it
> again today, fire-extinguisher close at hand.

You've really got me confused here....   When I set up my LJIII, or any 
of the other two printers I have (LJ4000 and HP5550), I don't recall 
anything about a CUPs printer AND a non-CUPs printer.  It was all CUPs 
and it configured the LJIII and it just worked.

As I said before, I won't be near the LJIII until Weds but I'll check it 
all again.  

Did you also install LPRng or some other print server?




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