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Lindsay Haisley posted <20060103024352.GA13851@×××.com>, excerpted below, |
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on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:43:52 -0600: |
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> I'm trying to configure an ancient HP Deskjet 1120C for my Gentoo desktop. |
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> It's connected to the only parallel port on the system, and works with both |
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> cups and in my Windows XP installation on VMware. |
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> The problem, however, is that cups wants to see the printer as /dev/lp0, |
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> which requires that I have the lp module installed. VMware won't deal with |
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> /dev/lp0, and insists on using /dev/parport0 and requires that the ppdev |
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> module be installed. If the lp module is installed, VMware complains about |
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> the printer port being in use by another device and turns off printing. |
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> Is there any way to get printing to work with both VMware and cups |
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> simultaneously? |
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> Cups is a royal PITA!!! |
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I certainly don't claim guru on this, but CUPS is a network printing |
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system, and I'd /guess/ that while you likely can't have them both |
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directly connected to the parallel port and printer, you should be able to |
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configure either VMWare directly, or a print driver on the VM inside it, |
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to print to CUPS, thru the loopback network interface. Note of course |
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that because it's a network service, you may have to reconfigure Netfilter |
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to allow the connections on the appropriate interface, if you are running |
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a firewall. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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