This one time, at band camp, Thomas H. George said: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:23:56AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > As yet no help on the old problem. In the meantime: > > I have a third box in which I just installed Woody from the CD set, > went on line (DSL) an ran dist-upgrade, then configured a 2.4.18 kernel, > used apt-get to install cupsys, cupsomatic-ppd and foomatic-bin. This > box has an HP Deskjet 940c on /dev/lp0. The above packages did not > include a driver for the 940c so I downloaded two versions (old and new > cups format) from www.linuxprinting.org - neither works! http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_940C but I see you've been there. They recommend the hpijs driver, so: steve@gashuffer:~$ apt-cache show hpijs Package: hpijs Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 344 Maintainer: Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.3-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-15), gs (>= 6.53) | gs-esp (>= 7.05) Filename: pool/main/h/hpijs/hpijs_1.3-2_i386.deb Size: 130570 MD5sum: 02190137e0f1ec43880dae57e8c276bb Description: HP Inkjet Server - Ghostscript driver for HP inkjets This package contains the hpijs binary which provides Ghostscript with a driver for most inkjet manufactured by Hewlett Packard using the ijs interface. Try that ans ee where it gets you - make sure when you're in the webdamin interface for CUPS you choose the driver that's marked 'hpijs' something or other. > > My system is Debian Testing with a 2.4.20 kernel. An Epson Stylus Color > > printer is on usblp0. I just tried this, with mixed results. modprobe printer to get the usblp0 part recognized. Then proceed with the normal CUPS web admin - if the usb subsystem is working, you'll get a list of USB ports, and one should have the printer on it. I'm using the gimp-print driver, and I'm pretty pleased with it. HTH, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | APL is a natural extension of assembler | | steve@lobefin.net | language programming; ...and is best | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | for educational purposes. -- A. | | | Perlis | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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