suse 8.2 networking

[Leon Goldstein]

Bruce Marshall wrote:

>On Tuesday 13 May 2003 9:33 am, dep wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>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.  
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>Did you also install LPRng or some other print server?
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SuSE 8.2 just appeared on the shelf at Best Buy.  Since the last SuSE I 
bought was 8.0 I've been considering
getting 8.2.  I appreciate the warnings.

Libranet 2.8 is out.  It now sets up printers during installation (as  
long as they are IEE 1284 compliant) and the Debian CUPS configuration 
file glitch has been eliminated.  For most printing, however, I prefer 
to dump a doc in WordPerfect 8.1 and print via its raw printer.  
Although WP8 is old, it is easy to install updated printer drivers, 
since they are the same as used by WP DOS.  I installed DOS HP drivers 
for my recently acquired HP 1200 Laser Jet.  WP8.1 prints noticeably faster.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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