[plug] printer newbie question

[John Knight]

Errr.. bit of a mix up here, Kim.


> > Cheers Craig and Alan, <important>I'll try it all out in the next few 
>days and get back
to ya. :)</important>

Not had a chance yet (re-organising my room today, just finished, those amps 
and speakers are a nightmare to shift about).

* li'l red faced *


Make lunch, not war.

>
>I could be wrong but I didnt see the responses on the list ?
>So I assume John got his fix privately :)
>
>I have no problem with folks doing private replies..but
>isn't it a good idea to dump suggestions into the list anyway.
>thus other folks can learn too ?
>
>/me with linmag hat off..
>I have picked up a heap of things from this and other lists,
>now tucked away in "to learn" folders.. for the future .)
>
>I thought this was one of the things..
>PLUG (and some other LUGS are all about) sharing and learning etc..
>
>But this brings us to the question..
>Just what is PLUG to you ?
>
>I would very much like to know as I am working on some ideas
>for the PLUG pages, and what you want is what you get.. but
>you will only get it..if you speak up :)
>
>Kim
>
>On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:15:26PM +0800, John Knight wrote:
> > Cheers Craig and Alan, I'll try it all out in the next few days and get 
>back
> > to ya. :)
> >
> > tah muchly!
> >
> > Make lunch, not war.
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >Alan Graham wrote:
> > >>I haven't seen any better qualified replies, so I'll give it a go.  
>The
> > >>first problem you have is that it's a usb printer.  /dev/lp0 is the
> > >>device address of the parallel printer port.  To find the address 
>given
> > >>to your usb printer, you need to have a look in your syslog out put.  
>I
> > >>can't rmember the default syslog file for RH 7.3 (/var/log/messages 
>?),
> > >>but you can find out by looking at /etc/syslogd.conf.  If you can't 
>find
> > >>it there then make sure the USB printer is switched on and connected,
> > >>reboot, and have a look at the output of dmesg.  Try 'dmesg | grep 
>usb'
> > >>
> > >>If you don't get any output from dmesg, or there's nothing in the
> > >>syslog, then you don't have usb support in the kernel and you'll have 
>to
> > >>compile it in.
> > >
> > >... or its built as a module and not being loaded - try "modprobe uhci" 
>or
> > >"modprobe usb-uhci". There's also a USB printer module that you'll need 
>to
> > >load - I have the funny feeling its called "printer" but I can't 
>remember,
> > >nor can I presently check.
> > >
> > >You may also need to set usbdevfs to mount on /dev/usb if it isn't
> > >automatically. I can't help you there sorry, I'm still mostly in the 
>dark
> > >ages of PS/2 and all my USB stuff works via HID and the input core in
> > >/dev/input using devfs :-)
> > >
> > >>BTW, consider installing cups and gimp-print (remove lpd, bsd-lpd
> > >>first), as it's a lot easier in the long run to administer printers 
>with
> > >>cups.
> > >
> > >Hmm... I've been using CUPS at work and have found it good, but far 
>from
> > >solid. The web front end sometimes crashes out and kills cupsd ; 
>certain
> > >ppds kill it dead ; setting the default printer seems to only work 
>using
> > >"lpadmin", etc. OTOH this is the version of CUPS in deb. woody which is 
>a
> > >bit old now.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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