[plug] No Devices in CUPS

[Harry McNally]

On 07 Jan 2003 12:26:38 +0800
"ryan at is.as.geeky.as" <ryan at is.as.geeky.as> wrote:

> When I attempt to add a new printer to CUPS via the web admin interface
> there are no devices to choose in the Device list.  Have a done a
> naughty somewhere?

It does sound naughty. When you "Add Printer" there should be a rudimentary list
of available printers. If you don't even get to the login popup then something
sounds uber-broken.

Under debian, the ppds for printers all live within /usr/share/cups/model
Have a look and see if the /usr/share/cups has directories:
banners        charsets  doc-root  model       templates
calibrate.ppm  data      fonts     pstoraster

You may be able to recover by installing all of the _other_ printers:

#apt-get install cupsomatic-ppd (sounds very Wallace and Grommit, yes ? :)

My model directory has these dirs:
Alps     Compaq       Imagen      Okidata    Sharp         epson9.ppd
Apollo   DEC          Infotec     Olivetti   Star          laserjet.ppd
Apple    Dymo-CoStar  Kodak       PCPI       Tally         okidat24.ppd
Avery    Epson        Kyocera     Panasonic  Tektronix     okidata9.ppd
Brother  Fujitsu      Lexmark     QMS        Xerox         stcolor.ppd
C        HP           Minolta     Raven      deskjet.ppd   stcolor2.ppd
C.Itoh   Heidelberg   Mitsubishi  Ricoh      deskjet2.ppd  stphoto.ppd
Canon    Hitachi      NEC         Samsung    dymo.ppd      stphoto2.ppd
Citizen  IBM          Oce         Seiko      epson24.ppd

Happy New Year btw :-)
Harry