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On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 07:44:51PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > Evening, Experts! |
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> > My printer isn't printing. |
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> > More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find |
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> > the printer. When I click on "Find New Printers" it comes back with |
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> > "Available Printers - No Printers Found.". |
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> > My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev. |
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> > Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build |
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> > would help. ;-(. |
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> > Help would be most appreciated. |
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> What kind of printer? How is it connected to the computer? |
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It's an old Samsung ML-1450, connected by a USB cable. The printer, of |
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itself, works fine. It prints on my "mdev system". |
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> What USE flags do you have enabled for the CUPS build? |
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# emerge -pv cups gives: |
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[ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.5.2-r4 USE="X acl dbus filters jpeg |
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ldap pam perl png python ssl threads tiff usb -avahi -debug -gnutls -java |
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-kerberos -slp -static-libs -xinetd" LINGUAS="-da -de -es -eu -fi -fr -id |
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-it -ja -ko -nl -no -pl -pt -pt_BR -ru -sv -zh -zh_TW" 0 kB |
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In particular, I've got usb set there. In my kernel config, |
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# CONFIG_USB_PRINTER is not set |
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, although I've tried setting it too, to no avail. |
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> If you re-emerge CUPS, it will spit some warnings at you if it detects |
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> problems with your kernel configuration. |
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It gave me no warnings. |
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> -- |
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> :wq |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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