Re: [K12OSN] unable to configure cups and HP G85

Eric Harrison (eharrison@mail.mesd.k12.or.us)
Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:26:49 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Brent Hasty wrote:

>I have setup k12-ltsp 3.0 on a little test computer, and have gotten 
>stonewalled, at setting up CUPS and a G85 on USB.  I have been going round in 
>circles with different configurations, includeing 2 complete reinstalations.
>
>What is the trick to setting up RH 8.0 to use cups (in this modern age I fail 
>to understand why RH does not have cups as the default print dameon)?
>
>Once cups is running what is the trick to setting up a usb hp g85?
>
>Works great under mandrake...

You probably have LPRng set as your default printing subsystem. Make
sure you have all the cups packages and the redhat-switch-printer
packages installed. Then run "redhat-switch-printer" and choose CUPS.

I too am glad that the next release will have CUPS as the default.

-Eric



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