[Sussex] Printing in CUPS + USB in gentoo

Angelo Servini angelo at servini.co.uk
Sun Nov 9 21:04:32 UTC 2003


Hello Alan,

Sunday, November 09, 2003, 10:47:43 AM, you wrote:

>> Could you tell me what to do next and what to avoid?  so that I have a
>> bootable kernel in the right place and LILO pointing to the right place?
>>

AJF> Make sure you have the 'printer' module loaded (modprobe printer), and the
AJF> module for your USB interface, possibly 'uhci' or 'usb-ohci'. It's a safe
AJF> bet the default Gentoo kernel provides these modules.

AJF> After these are loaded (and maybe a restart of cupsd), you should be able
AJF> to add the printer via the web admin interface at http://localhost:631

AJF> Hope this helps,
AJF> Alan

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Sorry but the printer module does not seem to exist

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 Angelo                            mailto:angelo at servini.co.uk





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