[Gllug] Samsung ML 2250 Printer on FC3 and CUPS

[Harry Mantheakis]

Can anyone tell me how I might go about enabling CUPS to recognise a Samsung
ML 2250 laser printer (monochrome) which does not appear in its default list
of printers? (It's a new model I believe.)

I'm running Fedora Core 3.

Warning - this may be a lame question, and the answer might be trivial -
because I'm new to CUPS and not really so clued up on how printers work!

The Samsung printer comes with its own Linux software, which works well
enough, except that it does not play well with 'printconf' and the 'cupsd'
daemon. 

After installing the Samsung software the 'cupsd' service refuses to show up
when I call 'chkconfig --list' (even though it was previously registered)
and it does not run when I boot up.

I can manually call 'cupsd' to get it started, but it complains - giving me
an error message.

I get the same message if I call 'printconf' and FC3's own print management
GUI application flashes on and disappears. (Samsung provides its own print
management GUI app.)

This is the error message:


# printconf
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/printconf", line 9, in ?
    import queueTree
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/queueTree.py", line 1236, in ?
    queueTree()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/queueTree.py", line 138, in __init__
    if cups_import.import_needed ():
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/cups_import.py", line 207, in
import_needed
    which = which_spooler ()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/cups_import.py", line 194, in
which_spooler
    which = l.split ('.')[1].strip ()
IndexError: list index out of range


If I uninstall the Samsung software, 'chkconfig' lists (and starts) 'cupsd'
and 'printconf' works as expected. (But obviously I cannot use the printer.)

To be frank, I do not understand how 'printconf', 'cupsd', and 'chkconfig'
play with each other, so I'm wary of raising the issue (!) which is why I'm
asking whether there is some way of using the printer through CUPS without
installing the Samsung software.

I Googled this, and got myself into a muddle.

I can live with things as they are, but it's annoying not to be able to have
everything working nicely when the machine boots up :-)

FC3 is great - I swear my stuff is running faster on it than it did on RH9 -
and YUM is just, well, a really nice thing!

Harry Mantheakis

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