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On 29/10/20 10:16 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Afternoon all, |
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> Before my trials with booting, and eventually rebuilding everything from the |
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> ground up, my Lexmark C2425 printer was working fine. Now the KDE system |
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> settings printer applet can't detect it, even though pinging it works. |
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> Then when I point firefox to localhost:631 cups's behaviour has changed. If I |
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> click Adding Printers and Classes, instead of a dialogue to let me add a |
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> printer I now get a help page telling me how to do it at the command line. |
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> Even if I do manage to add the printer, cups reports that it isn't responding. |
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> I take this to mean I'm not using the right protocol. I've tried IPP, IPPS, |
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> HTTP and HTTPS, following that help page. |
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> Package.use is the same as before, and I've tried with cups-browsed both |
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> running and not. |
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> What am I missing? |
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Sounds like to clicked on the (somewhat fuzzily named) "adding Printers |
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and Classes" on the main page - thats actually the help page which you |
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described. |
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Try clicking on Administration on the top line and then add printer. |
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BillK |
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