printer problem hp5550

linedpaper · Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 8:35 pm Post subject: printer problem hp5550

I tried to add my printer via webmin but I get an error. I have cups and hpijs installed and yes cups is running. When I try to install the printer I get the following:

Failed to save printer : lpadmin failed :

lpadmin: Unable to connect to server: Connection refused

Please help. Does cups have it's own web interface or when people talk about using it are they just talking about webmin? I'm am new to this whole printer thing so I don't really know what I'm doing. The printer is USB and I have usb printer support compiled into my kernel as static. Is there anything else I need to compile in?

Thanks
Tim

hoppy · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 44

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml

You will need usb, printer and a usb bus driver that corresponds to your chipset (ie mine is VIA and I use uhci).

modprobe usb
modprobe uhci

it should find the printer (check /var/log/messages)

webmin shouldnt be needed.

Rob

linedpaper · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 10:34 am Post subject:

Yeah thanks, got it all working. Just wasn't using cups correctly before. And I never looked at the docs on gentoo.org

Thanks.

Tim