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I'll give it a try tomorrow (getting late here) but this is a local usb |
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connected printer and I thought "browse" is used to allow cups to find |
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or offer printers to other hosts across the network. |
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BillK |
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On 04/08/13 20:56, Urs Schutz wrote: |
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> On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 10:42:54 +0800 |
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> William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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>> On 04/08/13 09:42, walt wrote: |
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>>> On 08/02/2013 07:23 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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>>>> I have a long running machine with a local epson usb |
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>>>> printer using the kernel lpusb |
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>>>> Using cups <=1.5.2-r4 I can print ... upgrade to |
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>>>> 1.6.2-r* and cups cant see the usb printer. The only |
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>>>> errors in the cups log are to do with systemd service |
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>>>> files which I masked a couple of days ago - the usb |
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>>>> problem was happening before though. |
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>>>> I tried both with and without the kernel module and |
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>>>> usb use flag with no difference. I cant create a new |
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>>>> printer in 1.6.2 because the usb port doesnt show up |
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>>>> at all. |
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>>> |
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>>> Does the printer appear in dmesg when you plug it in? |
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>>> |
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> snip... |
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>> |
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>> I cant confirm (I have rolled back as I need to print |
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>> today) but believe the scanner (xsane) in this printer |
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>> still works fine with either version of cups (its basicly |
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>> independent) |
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> |
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> Did you read that? |
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> |
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>> eselect news read 30 |
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> 2013-06-30-cups16 |
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> Title Printer browsing in net-print/cups-1.6 |
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> Author Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> |
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> Posted 2013-06-30 |
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> Revision 1 |
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> |
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> net-print/cups-1.6 no longer supports automatic remote |
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> printers or implicit classes via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP |
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> protocols, i.e. "network browsing". |
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> |
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> The browsing functionality can be restored by running |
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> cups-browsed from net-print/cups-filters as a separate |
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> daemon (just add its init script to your default runlevel). |
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> By default cups-browsed uses the net-print/cups-1.5 browse |
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> protocol, but it can also utilize zeroconf (if the zeroconf |
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> use flag is set). See /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf for |
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> configuration. |
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> |
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> Of course, directly specifying the location of your |
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> printers in the cups interface works as well. |
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> Seems to me that you could try as root: |
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>> /etc/init.d/cups-browsed start |
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> Urs |
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