Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

Hi Brian,

Cups is a demanding friend. You can find the path to your printer through the lpinfo -m. After finding the relative path to your printer you can use the lpadmin command to install it. The lpstat -p command will show that the printer is turned on.

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 9:08 PM, <briand@aracnet.com> wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:33:50 -0400
Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> wrote:

> >
> I'm not actually grasping some fundamental questions here.
> 1) where is your printer? I get the impression that it is attached to a
> computer on the network and not your local machine.
> 2) what type of printer is it?
> 3) is your network otherwise working? Can you browse the Internet,
> attach network shares, etc.?
>
>

1 it's on a USB port. it _was_ on ethernet, but CUPS couldn't seem to connect to it properly. i'm now thinking that maybe it could.

2 brother DCP-8110DN

3 yes, the network is in good shape. the only problem i am having which is yet to be resolved is that my loopback interface doesn't come up at boot time for some strange reason.

BRian

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