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On Friday, 30 October 2020 18:23:38 GMT Michael wrote: |
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> On Friday, 30 October 2020 16:49:31 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> We're confusing means of communication with the printer, or I am. The in- |
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> kernel USB Printer support is deprecated and most printer software no longer |
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> support it. |
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The menuconfig Help page gives no hint of that. |
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> > I found a way, eventually. I had to declare the printer manually, under |
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> > Add Printer. I chose ipp and gave it the URL ipp://<ip-addr>/ipp/print. |
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> URLs imply a network connection using an ethernet cable, which is what I |
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> assume you were trying to set up in the first instance. Avahi/zeroconf/upnp |
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> will announce the printer on the network and as long as cups is compiled |
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> with USE="zeroconf" it should show up when you go to Administration > Add |
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> Printer. |
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It didn't. That's the problem - well, the first one anyway. |
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I think I'll recover a kernel config from some months ago and see if that |
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helps. More straws being clutched at... |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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