Re: Lexmark USB Printer
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 03:01, ghwb wrote:
> 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
> >>>Tinus
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>You 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
I Agree with the lexmark comment! I have looked for a foomatic kit, but
only the Z22's drivers are there, not the Z25's. I do have the foomatic
kit for the Z22 already on my computer from Debian's std dist.
I have also tried to use rpm from debian, but the script exits with a
error message
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See
README.Debian.
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory
(2)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
while executing
"exec rpm -i --test $rpmfilename"
I then tried making a script file rpm but this exec command would seem
to me only executes binaries...
Regards
Tinus
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