Printer config with CUPS woes
Hi all,
i haf been trying for ages to get my Xerox Phaser 3110 b/w laser (a GDI
printer btw) to print something, but no luck. I am running Debian
testing/unstable.
i installed cupsys, cupsys-client, cupsomatic, and KDE3.1.1 on 2.4.18 bf2.4
kernel
When i was in Mandrake 9.1 i got it working with the driver for Lexmark
E210 (they are basically clones of each other), so it should work here in
Debian. So at linuxprinting.org, i got the .PPD file for it, cp to
/etc/share/cups/model and chmod 444 it
Some problems:
1) CUPS web interface doesnt work ( http://localhost:631 )
i have (none) as hostname. i wonder if this is the problem...
my /etc/hosts file was missing, so i created it, and put a line 127.0.0.1
localhost
2) "Unable to retrieve printer list...Connection to CUPS server
failed....Error:Connection refused." This was when i ran Print Manager in
KDE with root access! ps -A showed cupsd running perfectly too! It was
loaded alright so why am i getting this err msg...(note: cupsys is from
unstable branch)
i also tried lpadmin command to try to link to the .PPD file as root. well
nothing fruitful
fyi, sending some characters to /usblp0/lp0 did make the printer react, but
since its a GDI printer, it can't print acsii directly, but it did make
some noise. So we know USB actually recognises this printer.
Anyone have any ideas?
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