At 02:15 PM 3/9/2012, Brian wrote:
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 11:22:13 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Everything on the parallel port looks kosher (hopefully, other eyes are peeking to) but when you report: > rosenberg:/home/ethan# lpinfo -v > WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: > /tmp/keyring-e42sxy/pkcs11: No such file or directory > network lpd > file cups-pdf:/ > network ipp > network ipps > network http > network socket > network beh > network https and I compare it to mine on Sid: network http network lpd file cups-pdf:/ network ipp network https network ipps network socket direct scsi direct parallel:/dev/lp0 you can see you do not have 'direct parallel:/dev/lp0', which explains why CUPS doesn't see your printer (I think). But why is it missing? What is the output of ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend ?
Brian - Thanks. Here it is: ethan@rosenberg:/var/www/Webpages2$ ls -l /usr/lib/cups/ total 32 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 9 00:03 backend drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 9 00:00 backend-available drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 9 00:00 cgi-bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 9 00:00 daemon drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 8 23:38 driver drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 9 00:00 filter drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 9 00:00 monitor drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 9 00:00 notifier ethan@rosenberg:/var/www/Webpages2$ ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/ total 508 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7250 Mar 2 16:54 beh -rwx------ 1 root root 21284 Dec 26 22:43 cups-pdf -rwxr--r-- 3 root root 18096 Mar 5 02:52 dnssd -rwxr--r-- 5 root root 63516 Mar 5 02:52 http -rwxr--r-- 5 root root 63516 Mar 5 02:52 https -rwxr--r-- 5 root root 63516 Mar 5 02:52 ipp -rwxr--r-- 5 root root 63516 Mar 5 02:52 ipps -rwxr--r-- 2 root root 38744 Mar 5 02:52 lpd -rwxr--r-- 3 root root 18096 Mar 5 02:52 mdns -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17924 Mar 7 09:04 parallel -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13800 Mar 7 09:04 serial -r-xr-xr-x 2 root root 22252 Mar 5 02:52 snmp -r-xr-xr-x 2 root root 30488 Mar 5 02:52 socket -r-xr--r-- 2 root root 30460 Mar 5 02:52 usbEthan