Needing assistance yet again.
Need to set up printing on 6 Puppies with pupsaves on Flash Drive partitions, plus 1-copy-of-each-of-2-of-the-Puppies with their pupsaves in folders on an internal HDD partition.
Total of 8 at this point.
1.
(a) Beginning with Boxpup-431, loaded from CD-RW with pupsave on a partition on a Flash Drive.
(b) Installed:
hpijs-2.8.2_static-1
hpliplite-3.9.8-mu-p4
One of these un-necessary?
(c) Ran "Menu->Setup->CUPS".
Get to the point where it asks for "Device URI:", and I don't know what to input in the box.
My printer is connected to a parallel port [lpt1].
(d) Used your previous instructions to add gtk-print-backends = "file,cups,lpr" at the end of /root/.gtkrc.mine
Print direct to printer, not to a file first: HOW?
a. Are you using the CUPS 1.1.23 that comes with Boxpup-431 or are you trying the upgrade to 1.3.11? What model printer do you have?
b. IIRC, hpijs-2.8.2_static-1 just contains printer drivers, but hpliplite-3.9.8-mu-p4 supports both printers and scanners.
c. On the drop-down list for Devices, do you not have an entry for LPT?
d. This patch is only needed if you have installed CUPS 1.3.11.
b. IIRC, hpijs-2.8.2_static-1 just contains printer drivers, but hpliplite-3.9.8-mu-p4 supports both printers and scanners.
c. On the drop-down list for Devices, do you not have an entry for LPT?
d. This patch is only needed if you have installed CUPS 1.3.11.
[Update]
I downloaded Boxpup431 and did a test frugal install. It contains CUPS 1.3.9.
However, Boxpup appears to be missing all the parallel port kernel modules. This explains why LPT does not show up on your list of CUPS devices.
Attempting to add the modules with modprobe failed.
I then looked at the standard Puppy 4.3.1 which has the same kernel 2.6.30.5. It does contain the parallel port kernel modules.
I downloaded Boxpup431 and did a test frugal install. It contains CUPS 1.3.9.
However, Boxpup appears to be missing all the parallel port kernel modules. This explains why LPT does not show up on your list of CUPS devices.
Attempting to add the modules with modprobe failed.
I then looked at the standard Puppy 4.3.1 which has the same kernel 2.6.30.5. It does contain the parallel port kernel modules.
1. "Are you using the CUPS.....that comes with Boxpup-431"
Yes, no attempt to change from the native version.
2. "What model printer do you have?"
HP Deskjet 840c.
3. " IIRC, hpijs-2.8.2_static-1 just contains printer drivers, but hpliplite-3.9.8-mu-p4 supports both printers and scanners"
Don't have an HP scanner, so should I uninstall hpliplite-3.9.8-mu-p4?
4. "On the drop-down list for Devices, do you not have an entry for LPT?"
No.
5. "This patch is only needed if you have installed CUPS 1.3.11"
So I should revert back?
6. "I downloaded Boxpup431 and did a test frugal install. It contains CUPS 1.3.9"
I once installed a prog, that put an item in the menu.
The prog displayed the Puppy and kernel versions in a small box on the desktop.
Can't now find it; any idea what it's named, and where to get it?
7. "Boxpup appears to be missing all the parallel port kernel modules. This explains why LPT does not show up on your list of CUPS devices"
Can anything be done to fix that?
8. "Attempting to add the modules with modprobe failed"
Was this you attempting a fix, and it failed?
I don't know what modprobe is.
9. "I then looked at the standard Puppy 4.3.1 which has the same kernel 2.6.30.5. It does contain the parallel port kernel modules"
Is it possible to swap in a copy of the kernel that includes the modules?
Too difficult?
Yes, no attempt to change from the native version.
2. "What model printer do you have?"
HP Deskjet 840c.
3. " IIRC, hpijs-2.8.2_static-1 just contains printer drivers, but hpliplite-3.9.8-mu-p4 supports both printers and scanners"
Don't have an HP scanner, so should I uninstall hpliplite-3.9.8-mu-p4?
4. "On the drop-down list for Devices, do you not have an entry for LPT?"
No.
5. "This patch is only needed if you have installed CUPS 1.3.11"
So I should revert back?
6. "I downloaded Boxpup431 and did a test frugal install. It contains CUPS 1.3.9"
I once installed a prog, that put an item in the menu.
The prog displayed the Puppy and kernel versions in a small box on the desktop.
Can't now find it; any idea what it's named, and where to get it?
7. "Boxpup appears to be missing all the parallel port kernel modules. This explains why LPT does not show up on your list of CUPS devices"
Can anything be done to fix that?
8. "Attempting to add the modules with modprobe failed"
Was this you attempting a fix, and it failed?
I don't know what modprobe is.
9. "I then looked at the standard Puppy 4.3.1 which has the same kernel 2.6.30.5. It does contain the parallel port kernel modules"
Is it possible to swap in a copy of the kernel that includes the modules?
Too difficult?