cups printing

[furrynose]

I am trying to get cups set up. I have a lexmark Z11, and have emerged cups, gimp,foomatic and thougth that i had the printer set up on the web based cups adminitrations site, but it wont print a test page.
teh /var/log/cups/error_log shows the following:

d [25/May/2006:08:58:00 -0500] CloseClient: Removing fd 7 from InputSet and OutputSet...
D [25/May/2006:08:58:00 -0500] StopListening: closing all listen sockets.
D [25/May/2006:08:58:00 -0500] PauseListening: clearing input bits...
d [25/May/2006:08:58:00 -0500] PauseListening: Removing fd 0 from InputSet...
d [25/May/2006:08:58:00 -0500] StopBrowsing: Removing fd 2 from InputSet...
d [25/May/2006:08:58:00 -0500] StopServer: Removing fd 3 from InputSet...
E [25/May/2006:08:58:01 -0500] StartListening: Unable to find IP address for server name "whiskers" - Unknown host
E [25/May/2006:08:58:12 -0500] PID 31657 stopped with status 1!
E [25/May/2006:09:02:25 -0500] PID 31809 stopped with status 1!
E [25/May/2006:09:20:11 -0500] PID 32390 stopped with status 1!

This is on a computer that is behond a router, so it is set up with a network address rather than an ip address. I tried setting whiskers to the ip address shown on the router, restarted cups, tried printing - still no output.

apppreciate any suggestions

furrynose

[bodymind]

i don't know what you have done.. but try adding these line in /etc/hosts

[furrynose]

Tried that and got the same result. i also substituted my domain for "home" and still no output. ( of course i restarted cups after each change.)

thanks for the suggestion

furrynose

[furrynose]

I have reinstalled ghost, cups and gimp, and reinstalled the printer on the cups web interface. but still no joy.
if anyone could find a clue in th e info below i would be incredibly grateful. The cups configuration file is exactly as it was, except that i changed the logging variable to debug2. I am curious about the lines below relating to authorization - don't have a clue what they mean.

Thanks

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23
# Written by cupsd on Thu May 25 17:23:56 2006
<DefaultPrinter LexmarkZ11>
Info Lexmark
Location shelf
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>

whiskers ~ # dmesg | grep -i print
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
whiskers ~ # dmesg | grep -i parpor
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP(,...)]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
whiskers ~ #

whiskers ~ # lpq
LexmarkZ11 is ready
no entries



* net-print/foomatic
Latest version available: 3.0.2
Latest version installed: 3.0.2
Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
Homepage: http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html
Description: The Foomatic printing meta package
License: GPL-2

* net-print/foomatic-db
Latest version available: 20050910
Latest version installed: 20050910
Size of downloaded files: 20,907 kB
Homepage: http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html
Description: Foomatic printer database
License: GPL-2

* net-print/foomatic-db-engine
Latest version available: 3.0.2
Latest version installed: 3.0.2
Size of downloaded files: 838 kB
Homepage: http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html
Description: Foomatic printer database engine
License: GPL-2

* net-print/foomatic-filters
Latest version available: 3.0.2-r1
Latest version installed: 3.0.2-r1
Size of downloaded files: 368 kB
Homepage: http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html
Description: Foomatic wrapper scripts
License: GPL-2




* net-print/cups
Latest version available: 1.1.23-r7
Latest version installed: 1.1.23-r7
Size of downloaded files: 25,504 kB
Homepage: http://www.cups.org/
Description: The Common Unix Printing System
License: GPL-2

* net-print/libgnomecups
Latest version available: 0.2.0
Latest version installed: 0.2.0
Size of downloaded files: 303 kB
Homepage: http://www.gnome.org
Description: GNOME cups library
License: GPL-2 LGPL-2.1



* media-gfx/gimp-print
Latest version available: 4.2.7
Latest version installed: 4.2.7
Size of downloaded files: 15,170 kB
Homepage: http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
Description: Gimp Print Drivers
License: GPL-2



* app-text/ghostscript-esp
Latest version available: 8.15.1_p20060430
Latest version installed: 8.15.1_p20060430
Size of downloaded files: 39,600 kB
Homepage: http://www.cups.org/espgs
Description: ESP Ghostscript -- an enhanced version of GPL Ghostscript wit h better printer support
License: GPL-2 LGPL-2


from /var/log/cups/error_log

copy_attribute(0x702da0, 0x54cbd0[orientation-requested-default,4,23])
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] copy_attribute(0x702da0, 0x54bca0[job-hold-until-supported,4,44])
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] copy_attribute(0x702da0, 0x55d170[job-hold-until-default,4,44])
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] copy_attribute(0x702da0, 0x5494e0[job-sheets-supported,4,42])
D [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=0
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] ProcessIPPRequest: Adding fd 5 to OutputSet...
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] WriteClient: Removing fd 5 from OutputSet...
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] ReadClient: 5, used=0, file=-1
D [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] ReadClient: 5 POST / HTTP/1.1
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] decode_auth(0x2aaaabb01010): Authorization string = ""
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] decode_auth: 5 username=""
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] IsAuthorized: con->uri = "/"
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] FindBest: uri = "/"...
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] FindBest: Location / Limit 7f
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] FindBest: Location /admin Limit 7f
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] FindBest: best = "/"
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] IsAuthorized: auth = 0, satisfy=0...
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] POST /
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] CONTENT_TYPE = application/ipp
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] ReadClient: 5 con->data_encoding = length, con->data_remaining = 72, con->file = -1
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] ProcessIPPRequest(0x2aaaabb01010[5]): operation_id = 4002
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] get_printers(0x2aaaabb01010[5], 0)
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] add_printer_state_reasons(0x2aaaabb01010[5], 0x54b5e0[LexmarkZ11])
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] add_queued_job_count(0x2aaaabb01010[5], 0x54b5e0[LexmarkZ11])
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] copy_attrs(0x700e60, 0x548c40, (nil), 0)
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] copy_attribute(0x700e60, 0x548c80[printer-uri-supported,4,45])
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] copy_attribute(0x700e60, 0x548d10[uri-authentication-supported,4,44])
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] copy_attribute(0x700e60, 0x548da0[uri-security-supported,4,44])
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] copy_attribute(0x700e60, 0x548e20[printer-name,4,42])
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] copy_attribute(0x700e60, 0x548ea0[printer-location,4,41])
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] copy_attribute(0x700e60, 0x548f20[printer-info,4,41])
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] copy_attribute(0x700e60, 0x548fa0[printer-more-info,4,45])
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] copy_attribute(0x700e60, 0x549030[job-quota-period,4,21])
d [25/May/2006:20:48:56 -0500] copy_attribute(0x700e60,

[furrynose]

hooked up an epson all-in-one and it printed right of the bat.

does anyone know where to find a driver for a 7 year old lexmark Z11 printer?
may not be one available byut it would be nice if i could find it.

thanks
furrynose