suse 8.2 networking

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 14:17 pm, dep wrote:
> begin  Bruce Marshall's  quote:
> | I just went through the motions of installing an LJIII on parallel
> | port lp0. (which I don't have at the moment)  and the only think I
> | saw that was non-cups was under the 'model selection' there was a
> | button that said 'use non-YAST2 ppd file'.  I've never used
> | that....  Did you?
>
> no.
>
> here is what i did, because i did it again just now after having
> deleted the printer configuration entirely:
>
> opened yast2 and went to hardware > printer. none was autodetected, of
> course, "other" was listed. i clicked on "configure." prompted for
> connection type, i selected "parallel." the next screen offered me
> the choice of /dev/lp0 and has a test button. i click it and a few
> seconds later a sheet of paper with "Hello, world" appears from the
> printer.
>

Ok, wanna try HP LJ III    ?

Shouldn't really make a difference but the LJ3 might be in the class of 
LJ3SI  which is a different beast.

Your stat printout at the end is much similar to mine so there's nothing 
wrong there that I can see.




> next page allows me to select the printer make and model. i choose h-p
> laserjet 3D because it is a laserjet IIID. next page tells me the
> printer is named lp, is in the default configuration, and is a new
> queue, whatever that means. there is a test printing button. i click
> on it and am given the choice of "test graphical printing" or "test
> text printing." printer is on and online, having just printed "Hello,
> world" so i choose to test graphical printing. the incoming data
> light flashes for about five seconds, and the printer goes offline.
> it cannot be put back online without cycling the power.
>
> now, we'll try it with text printing, as soon as it warms up again.
> okay. the same thing happens.
>
> the /etc/cups/printers.conf file says this:
>
> # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.18
> # Written by cupsd on Tue May 13 18:04:49 2003
> <DefaultPrinter lp>
> Info
> Location Unknown printer
> DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
> State Idle
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> </Printer>
>
> the printers.conf file i had with my old, working installation said
> this:
>
> # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.10
> # Written by cupsd on Sat Feb 22 13:22:29 2003
> <DefaultPrinter LJIIID>
> DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
> State Idle
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> </Printer>

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         05/13/03 
14:48  +
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