On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:13:38 -0600, quip wrote:
>
> GeorgeC wrote:
>| Folks, every now and then I get a brain stall trying to setup something,
>| here's today's...
>|
>| I have a slak 10 box/kde, which works very nicely. Printing has always
> been
>| a mystery to me with Linux, and I only use slak in the house (laptop has
>| Lindows for playing on airplanes and annoying MS fans).
>|
>| But...
>|
>| Any suggestions on getting my slak 10/kde box talking to my HP6110 USB
>| printer?
>|
>| I can get the laptop to do it, using Lindows/Debian. But that does me no
>| good here in the house.
>|
>| Printe manager in KDE doesn't seem to have a "add printer" type
> function, or
>| am I overlooking something there?
>|
>| Thanks, y'all, for any advice on this matter.
>|
>| George C
>| Awstin, TX
>|
> You should be able to use kprinter to add printers. It has a little
> button with a wand on it that will launch the wizard. However, have you
> tried cups? If that's what you use, then you can just fire up your
> favorite web browser and point it to http://localhost:631 to find a very
> intuitive interface which will walk you through the process of adding a
> printer.
>
>
>

Point the printer software, CUPS, etc at /dev/usb/lp0 .

Now, a Quest further. I have a mouse, 3 button, Belkin

lsusb shows;

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1241:1111 Belkin (?) Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Anyone get this to work?

linking ((/dev/usb/mouse) or (/dev/usb/mouse2)) to /dev/mouse stops
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