After running lots of not very helpful help on the web, I'm finally
breaking down and asking for help here. You all have helped me a lot
without my having to ask. Now I'm asking.

I'm running Slackware 10.2 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 (Celeron) laptop,
running Slackware v. 10.2, Opera 8.51. F-Prot Antivirus, Projectfiles
Firewall, KDE 3.4. I've gotten the USB mouse working, the internal CD r+w
and DVD r drive working, and the external Pioneer CD/DVD r+w drive
working. (After running Slack on my webserver for six months, I finally
made the leap!)

But the printer is giving me fits. The Lexmark website has Linux drivers
for the printer
(http://support.lexmark.com/cgi-perl/...85&relevance=1)
in Suse, Mandrake, and Redhat flavors. I tried d/ling the Mandrake
version and installing it and no luck.

CUPS is running at localhost:631 and I can configure the printer there,
but the computer can't see the printer; attempts to print a test page
fail. The Z25/Z35 driver from Lexmark does not appear in CUPS (that's why
I think the driver install didn't work, even though it did not throw any
errors).




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http://linuxprinting.org/ hope this helps

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:44:02 -0500, FWB wrote:

> But the printer is giving me fits. The Lexmark website has Linux drivers

Throw that piece of shit into the nearest Dumpster, and go buy an HP,
Epson, or Brother printer. Seriously.

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Dan C wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:44:02 -0500, FWB wrote:
>
>> But the printer is giving me fits. The Lexmark website has Linux drivers
>
> Throw that piece of shit into the nearest Dumpster, and go buy an HP,
> Epson, or Brother printer. Seriously.
>

Dan C. is 100% correct. Lexmark is one of the most Linux-unfriendly
equipment manufacturers on the planet.

I can't vouch for the Linux/cups compatibility with Brother printers, but
it's hard to go wrong with Epson or HP. Still, it is best to check around
BEFORE you buy any hardware to run with Linux.

Al

Dan C wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:44:02 -0500, FWB wrote:
>
>
>>But the printer is giving me fits. The Lexmark website has Linux drivers
>
>
> Throw that piece of shit into the nearest Dumpster, and go buy an HP,
> Epson, or Brother printer. Seriously.
>

-Infinity Wrote:


I have heard that good advice _many_ times, but apparently
the word has not reached every one yet. :-)

Walmart was selling them for $20.00 each... (Yeah they got me too.)

A Door stop is much too good for those things.

The Ink cartridges cost twice as much as the printer !


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Dan C wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:44:02 -0500, FWB wrote:
>
>
>>But the printer is giving me fits. The Lexmark website has Linux drivers
>
>
> Throw that piece of shit into the nearest Dumpster, and go buy an HP,
> Epson, or Brother printer. Seriously.
>
When I joined Telus ISP hispeed they sold me a Dell do-all printer that turned
out to be a Lexmark and needed the same drivers. I tried everything anyone
suggested including installing SuSE. Nothing worked. After buggering around for
a few weeks, I gave it to my brother and he gave it to someone who uses
Microslop. Maybe they have it doing something but I think the last writer is
right. Toss it!

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A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
< running Slackware 10.1 Linux >

FWB wrote:
> After running lots of not very helpful help on the web, I'm finally
> breaking down and asking for help here. You all have helped me a lot
> without my having to ask. Now I'm asking.
>
> I'm running Slackware 10.2 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 (Celeron) laptop,
> running Slackware v. 10.2, Opera 8.51. F-Prot Antivirus, Projectfiles
> Firewall, KDE 3.4. I've gotten the USB mouse working, the internal CD
> r+w and DVD r drive working, and the external Pioneer CD/DVD r+w drive
> working. (After running Slack on my webserver for six months, I
> finally made the leap!)
>
> But the printer is giving me fits. The Lexmark website has Linux
> drivers for the printer
> (http://support.lexmark.com/cgi-perl/...85&relevance=1)
> in Suse, Mandrake, and Redhat flavors. I tried d/ling the Mandrake
> version and installing it and no luck.
>
> CUPS is running at localhost:631 and I can configure the printer there,
> but the computer can't see the printer; attempts to print a test page
> fail. The Z25/Z35 driver from Lexmark does not appear in CUPS (that's
> why I think the driver install didn't work, even though it did not
> throw any errors).
>
>
>
>

Go to http://www.linuxprinting.org. I see an entry for the Z-23 printer
which mention that you have to do additional steps to get it working
with CUPS. I do not not if it will works for the Z-25 but you can try.

It is also good if you have an rpm for an other distribution to know how
to play with it.

A few suggestions:
- extracting the rpm:
mkdir dir
cd dir
rpm2cpio <rpm-file> | cpio --extract
Alternatively use rpm2tgz.

seeing what are the installation scripts in the rpm:

rpm -q -p <rpm-file> --scripts

Often these scripts have to be adjusted; this is not handled at all by
rpm2tgz.

Olive

FWB wrote:

> After running lots of not very helpful help on the web, I'm finally
> breaking down and asking for help here. You all have helped me a lot
> without my having to ask. Now I'm asking.

I installed Slackware 10.2 recently on a client's PC, as a replacement for
Windows XP. Configured all the hardware OK (although lspci threw out a
bunch of nvidia linesD)... only I gave up on the printer, a lexmark Z30,
bought at a food discount. I told him to throw the printer away and to buy
something else, so he went for a Brother laser printer, which works fine.

Cheers,

Niki Kovacs

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> FWB wrote:
>
>
>>After running lots of not very helpful help on the web, I'm finally
>>breaking down and asking for help here. You all have helped me a lot
>>without my having to ask. Now I'm asking.
>
>
> I installed Slackware 10.2 recently on a client's PC, as a replacement for
> Windows XP. Configured all the hardware OK (although lspci threw out a
> bunch of nvidia linesD)... only I gave up on the printer, a lexmark Z30,
> bought at a food discount. I told him to throw the printer away and to buy
> something else, so he went for a Brother laser printer, which works fine.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki Kovacs

I found here a HOWTO, to install Lexmarks printer on Gentoo. It must be
easily adapted to Slackware:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Lexmark_Printers

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> FWB wrote:
>
>
>>After running lots of not very helpful help on the web, I'm finally
>>breaking down and asking for help here. You all have helped me a lot
>>without my having to ask. Now I'm asking.
>
>
> I installed Slackware 10.2 recently on a client's PC, as a replacement for
> Windows XP. Configured all the hardware OK (although lspci threw out a
> bunch of nvidia linesD)... only I gave up on the printer, a lexmark Z30,
> bought at a food discount. I told him to throw the printer away and to buy
> something else, so he went for a Brother laser printer, which works fine.

So instead of using an OS which could use the client's hardware, you
used an OS that required that he junk some of his hardware and buy new
stuff?

And people actually pay you for help? Judging by the nature of your
postings you are one of the clueless people who post to this group.
Don't you feel guilty charging money for support that you have to get
from here for free?

cordially, as always,

rm