Hello all!

Why me?!
Decided to connect a piece of hardware to Linux box an RTFM'ing the
subject I found myself in a shape of pretzel.
lpd, lpr, printcap, CUPS, PostScript(Ghostscript) and so on......

[The more I know people, the more I love animals]
Mouse works as intended and so does
cat <filename>.txt > /dev/lp0.
[/The more I know people, the more I love animals]

So now I need a guide(dog?) to direct me to some "incredible" HOWTO that
will guide me step by step from 'alpha' to 'omega' without side trips
all over the web.

HELP!!!!

Regards

Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.

Maybe http://127.0.0.1:631/ helps?


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steelneck wrote:
>
> Maybe http://127.0.0.1:631/ helps?
>
>
In what way? I am tired of walking in a circle.

Stanislaw.

Stanislaw Flatto wrote:
> steelneck wrote:
>
>>
>> Maybe http://127.0.0.1:631/ helps?
>>
>>
> In what way? I am tired of walking in a circle.
>
> Stanislaw.
>

He want to say you that if you would like to configure a printer; you
can do it graphically by pointing a web browser to http://127.0.0.1:631/
without worring much of ppd, printcap, etc... You must ensure that
/etc/rc./rc.cups is executable. As you were not specific about your
problem we cannot help you more

Olive

On 2005-11-27, Stanislaw Flatto <compaid@shoalhaven.net.au> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
>
> HELP!!!!
>
> Regards
>
> Stanislaw
> Slack user from Ulladulla.
>

You're looking in all the wrong places, all you should need is listed below:

http://www.userlocal.com/articles/sl...inting-faq.php
http://www.userlocal.com/articles/slackwarecups.php

ken

Stanislaw Flatto <compaid@shoalhaven.net.au> wrote:
: Why me?!
: Decided to connect a piece of hardware to Linux box an RTFM'ing the
: subject I found myself in a shape of pretzel.
: lpd, lpr, printcap, CUPS, PostScript(Ghostscript) and so on......

: [The more I know people, the more I love animals]
: Mouse works as intended and so does
: cat <filename>.txt > /dev/lp0.
: [/The more I know people, the more I love animals]

: So now I need a guide(dog?) to direct me to some "incredible" HOWTO that
: will guide me step by step from 'alpha' to 'omega' without side trips
: all over the web.

If you want magical rituals to perform to excise the technological demons
from your new hardware and bring the blessings of Bob Dobbs to your computer,
we can help based on the information given. Any other sort of help would
require a mind reader since you mention neither name of said mysterious
hardware nor the nature of the issue you had with the named printing related
items.

On 2005-11-27, Stanislaw Flatto <compaid@shoalhaven.net.au> wrote:
> steelneck wrote:
>>
>> Maybe http://127.0.0.1:631/ helps?
>>
>>
> In what way? I am tired of walking in a circle.

Assuming you you want to use cups, make sure cups is running.
As root chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups if it isn't already executible.
Do /etc/rc.d/rc.cups start if it isn't already running. Point your
web browser at http://localhost:631, which is the cups web based
administration tool. Click on "printers" at the top of the first page,
click on "add printer" on the bottom of the next page, and do what it
tells you to do. You need to know the make and model of your printer,
which interface it is connected to and have already loaded the kernel
modules for it. I assume you already have done this part. The only
hard part is when there isn't a printer description file for your printer.

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Melissa Danforth wrote:

> : [The more I know people, the more I love animals]
> : Mouse works as intended and so does
> : cat <filename>.txt > /dev/lp0.
> : [/The more I know people, the more I love animals]

> If you want magical rituals to perform to excise the technological demons
> from your new hardware and bring the blessings of Bob Dobbs to your computer,
> we can help based on the information given. Any other sort of help would
> require a mind reader since you mention neither name of said mysterious
> hardware nor the nature of the issue you had with the named printing related
> items.

Ref. the 'pussy' mentioned above.
So Centronic - D25 connections understand each other. Nothing
'mysterious' in that.

Have fun

Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.