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Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/02/08 00:19: |
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>> I've installed cups and hplip.... I cannot follow the Gentoo |
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>> printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add |
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>> hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in |
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>> /etc/init.d. My printer is an old HP Laserjet 4M, which I usually |
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>> run as a Postscrpt printer. |
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>> What have I missed? |
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> hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 |
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> I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive |
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> that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i |
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> got it back from the DiskSavers, along with the data on a new USB |
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> external drive. Copying over the cups config files just magically |
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> made the printer work locally. |
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> That's enough for now. |
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> I'm still struggling with a host of issues, so I'm going to ignore |
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> the fact that I have no idea what keeps my CUPS working. |
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> I think I've got cron backing up to that USB drive nightly -- using |
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> rsync it takes about an hour for all partitions, unattended. Beats |
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> the blazes out of hovering over the DVD drive. And i'm pretty sure I |
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> won't end up in the same fix again. |
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> But I've still got to get the LPD service going, not to mention |
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> apache, vmware, ntp and gaim/pidgin. |
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> And I have a day job. |
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> I'll get around to it. Real Soon Now. |
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Glad to hear that you're up and running, and thanks for the timely |
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reminder to do a backup! 8-) |
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Please check that you have USE=parport enabled for hplip |
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The contents of /etc/hp/hplip.conf and the output of: |
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hp-check |
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- and - |
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hp-probe -bpar |
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would also be interesting. |
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Cheers, Dave |
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