[plug] Samsung ML2010 printer problem

[Bret Busby]

Hello, everyone.

I am running Debian 4.0 on my computer.

I currently have an HP PSC1410 installed on the computer, which 
installed at the time of the system installation, without any action by 
me, and it runs okay - printing and scanning.

I have just bought a Samsung ML2010 laser printer, to be able to use a 
black laser printer. The printer is supposed to work "Perfectly" with 
Linux, and the Samsung information says that the model runs with Debian.

I have tried, repeatedly, to instal the printer, using foomatic, and it 
simply doesn't instal.

The printer is detected, without any problem, including the correct 
model number.

When stepping through the installation process, the driver default is 
splix (recommended), so, I just step on from that, and it doesn't work.

At "Choose Printer Connection", the printer is listed.

At "Printer Identification", the printer is selcted, with queue name 
ml2010, and I type in Samsung ML2010 for "Printer Description", then 
select <Forward>.

At the "Choose printer make and model", "Samsung" and "ML-2010" are 
listed, so I select <Forward>. Nothing indicates that I need to enter 
anything in the text box "Adobe PPD file".

At the "Choose printer driver" dialogue box, it says
"Hint: choose the printer driver marked "recommended" below if you're 
not sure which printer driver to use; it should be selected already. 
"splix" is marked, and shown as "recommended". So, I select <Forward>.

Then I come to a dialogue box,
"Almost done.
To add this printer, click the Apply button. ...".

So, I select <Apply>.

Then it returns me to the foomatic printer management window, without 
the printer having been installed.

What is going wrong and, why isn't the printer installing?

If I run Synaptic, and search for splix, it is not found.

Thanks in anticipation.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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