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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 11:00 AM

All,

I recently wiped out Red Hat and installed the latest version of Gentoo.
I've never used Gentoo before and I really like it. I would like to keep
using it except I can no longer print. It looks like I should use CUPS
for printing, but I've never used that either.

I have a Linksys print server(PPSX1) connected to an HP5MP laserjet
printer. I could print before when I was running Red Hat. But now it
doesn't work (I think I used lp before though). I checked out the support
docs on the Linksys web site, but they are written for LP and not CUPS.

Is anyone using a similar config? Any hints or pointers would be
appreciated.

Thanks,

-Paul
pgallant@email.com

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 11:00 AM

This assumes you have configured the linksys
with an IP address?
I haven't tried that particular server but had luck
for server appliances and cards using cups
AppSocket
Socket://host:9100
(add a printer after logging in the interface
from a system using a browser as root/password)
Cups is pretty straight forward once you get the
interface up. (type localhost:631 in browser)
Of course make sure the cupsd daemon is running.
I used a server like this for about a year but
I now prefer direct attached and modifying the
cupsd.conf to broadcast as your whole network
magically sees it.
Hope some of this helps.
-Walt

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 11:00 AM

Thanks for the quick reply.

After my post, I installed Webmin and tried to install a printer that way.
Lo and behold! It worked! Took about 30 seconds to install. I fought
with that goofy KDE print manager thingy for a couple hours!

I checked out http://localhost:631 and that is a very cool way to manage
printers. Thanks for the tip!

-Paul
"Top-posting is not a crime...it's just annoying."

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:11:27 +0000, PenguinsAnonymous wrote:

>
> This assumes you have configured the linksys
> with an IP address?
> I haven't tried that particular server but had luck
> for server appliances and cards using cups
> AppSocket
> Socket://host:9100
> (add a printer after logging in the interface
> from a system using a browser as root/password)
> Cups is pretty straight forward once you get the
> interface up. (type localhost:631 in browser)
> Of course make sure the cupsd daemon is running.
> I used a server like this for about a year but
> I now prefer direct attached and modifying the
> cupsd.conf to broadcast as your whole network
> magically sees it.
> Hope some of this helps.
> -Walt

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