Tinus Kotzé wrote:
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 03:15, ghwb wrote:Tinus Kotzé wrote:Good day I am setting up my first USB device. It is the Lexmark z25 printer. Under kprinter(add local printer) it is listed under the usb devices as a lexmark z25_z35 printer. Everything seems fine, accept that if I print a page, it never seems to appear in the job queue of cups. In console I tried echo foo.txt > /dev/usb/lp0 and it just gives me the prompt again, but with lp[1..x] it gives an error of no device so I am concluding that the device is on lp0. I am running debian unstable kernel 2.4.20 and is using cups as interface for my printing. Can anybody help me please? I tried googling but couldn;t find an answer, except that the printer may not be usable under linux which I will not accept ;-) I have also tried the drivers from lexmark's site, but it seems to be rpm based and I am not clued up enough in linux to work around the script and use alien to try install the rpm. Regards TinusYou should be able to apt-get rpm to install rpm, then use the lexmark rpm driver (with --nodeps to force installation over objections), then check linuxprinting.org to see if there is a lexmark-foomatic-kit for your printer, and check the lexmark mail list on linuxprinting.org. After tons of effort, I finally have my z32 working. But, it's not perfect and I still have to do some printing from M$.Thanx for the advice. The problem is that the driver from lexmark is a script file combined with the gzipped rpm and I don't think I can add the paramater. I will try later today when I have time to maybe fool the program with a link.Regards Tinus
If you apt-get install rpm on your debian, then the lexmark script should execute when rpm -ivh --nodeps lexmark*rpm is executed. But, it may not be needed, if you have a lexmark-foomatic-kit from linuxprinting.org.
good luck, and don't ever buy a lexmark again