Usb Print Support

[alee16]

OK, I've switched to OpenZaurus and I'm running OPIE/GPE at the same time.  I've installed CUPS from the 3.5.4 feed, and all its dependencies.  What do I need to do to get it to print  ?

I'm not sure how to setup a printer, on my desktop with cups I just go to localhost:631, but firefox isn't finding anything under localhost:631, and konqueror doesn't do "localhost".
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try "lsusb" and see if anything shows up connected?
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Wow! That was a quick response!

I get
Bus 001 Device 0003: 04b8-0005 Seiko Epson Stylus Printer
What should I do now?

[adf]

OK, I've switched to OpenZaurus and I'm running OPIE/GPE at the same time.  I've installed CUPS from the 3.5.4 feed, and all its dependencies.  What do I need to do to get it to print  ?

I'm not sure how to setup a printer, on my desktop with cups I just go to localhost:631, but firefox isn't finding anything under localhost:631, and konqueror doesn't do "localhost".
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try "lsusb" and see if anything shows up connected?
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Wow! That was a quick response!

I get
Bus 001 Device 0003: 04b8-0005 Seiko Epson Stylus Printer
What should I do now?
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lmao..I'm not entirely sure.  do you have some kind of cups config stuff available?  Obviously the problem is to pint cups at this device.  Of colurse, you might try a test page in cups on usb (postscript) just to see what happens.

[alee16]

OK, I've switched to OpenZaurus and I'm running OPIE/GPE at the same time.  I've installed CUPS from the 3.5.4 feed, and all its dependencies.  What do I need to do to get it to print  ?

I'm not sure how to setup a printer, on my desktop with cups I just go to localhost:631, but firefox isn't finding anything under localhost:631, and konqueror doesn't do "localhost".
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try "lsusb" and see if anything shows up connected?
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=134453\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Wow! That was a quick response!

I get
Bus 001 Device 0003: 04b8-0005 Seiko Epson Stylus Printer
What should I do now?
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lmao..I'm not entirely sure.  do you have some kind of cups config stuff available?  Obviously the problem is to pint cups at this device.  Of colurse, you might try a test page in cups on usb (postscript) just to see what happens.
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My problem is I don't know how to get "in cups" to print a test page.  I tried localhost:631, but no go.  Do you know how?

Thanks for your help!

[adf]

maybe start here?
cups commandline
cups manual

[alee16]

maybe start here?
cups commandline
cups manual
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I am not sure where the cups daemon is to "start" it.  Apparently it puts it in different places?  
When I run cupsd I get an error "cannot start child exit status 2!" or something like that.
On my computer I get the same kind of error "98" instead of "2", but it still prints, so I think I just need to start the cups daemon the correct way, then I can configure it in firefox under localhost:631.  Does anyone know where it is put?
or, does anyone know how to search for a file by a name?

[adf]

su
cd /
find -name 'cups'

[alee16]

su
cd /
find -name 'cups'
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Thanks, found out that the cups daemon is already running, apparently the internet printing protocol which provides localhost:631 (an easy way to setup a printer) isn't part of the Zaurus package  .  I guess it makes it more compact.  I will dive back in to the cups documentation to figure out how to install a printer via command-line.

[adf]

su
cd /
find -name 'cups'
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Thanks, found out that the cups daemon is already running, apparently the internet printing protocol which provides localhost:631 (an easy way to setup a printer) isn't part of the Zaurus package  .  I guess it makes it more compact.  I will dive back in to the cups documentation to figure out how to install a printer via command-line.
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Now THAT is something you might pester HRW about.  surely it would be easy to whip up a "cups grande" package if he has a build system up and running.

[koen]

Now THAT is something you might pester HRW about.  surely it would be easy to whip up a "cups grande" package if he has a build system up and running.
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cups 1.1.23-r1 contains everything (minus support for serial printers) the cups build generates, including a working webinterface.

[adf]

Now THAT is something you might pester HRW about.  surely it would be easy to whip up a "cups grande" package if he has a build system up and running.
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cups 1.1.23-r1 contains everything (minus support for serial printers) the cups build generates, including a working webinterface.
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is this the package being used here ....if not, did an upgrade work? if so wht is the issue?

[alee16]

cups 1.1.23-r1 contains everything (minus support for serial printers) the cups build generates, including a working webinterface.
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is this the package being used here ....if not, did an upgrade work? if so wht is the issue?
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That's just what I need!  Where is r1?  I got cups_1.1.23-r0 from the 3.5.4 feed under upgrades folder, but can't seem to find r1, is there another feed I need to know about?

I've searched everywhere, is it possibly not on a feed yet?

[Jon_J]

Now THAT is something you might pester HRW about.  surely it would be easy to whip up a "cups grande" package if he has a build system up and running.
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cups 1.1.23-r1 contains everything (minus support for serial printers) the cups build generates, including a working webinterface.
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is this the package being used here ....if not, did an upgrade work? if so wht is the issue?
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That's just what I need!  Where is r1?  I got cups_1.1.23-r0 from the 3.5.4 feed under upgrades folder, but can't seem to find r1, is there another feed I need to know about?

I've searched everywhere, is it possibly not on a feed yet?

Oh, and koen, sort of an off-topic question, what is Angstrom?
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I looked here:
[a href=\"http://gentoo-portage.com/net-print/cups]http://gentoo-portage.com/net-print/cups[/url]
Does this need compiling? The description mentions "arm"

[alee16]

I looked here:
http://gentoo-portage.com/net-print/cups
Does this need compiling? The description mentions "arm"
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To work "properly" (reasonable speed, etc.) I think it would need recompiled and optimized for the Zaurus.  I think Koen meant that it was available already for the Zaurus (ipk), but it may not have been uploaded to the mirror yet.

Edit:
I found the cups_1.1.23-r1 package its under /tmp/feed in the ewi . . . mirror.  Is this the correct one, and now I find my question is related, I figured out what Angstrom is (sorry, I haven't figured out the accents with my US keymap), what is the status, is it useable, or does it take alot of tweaking?

[alee16]

I've been trying for the past two days to get the Angstrom cups_1.1.23-r1 package running on OpenZaurus.  It requires libc6 to be updated, which crashes with an error that renders the system unuseable (requiring reflashing of OPIE & GPE).  Angstrom won't work on my akita either, so I've still got the same problem.  Maybe Hrw or Koen could build the r1 cups package for OpenZaurus.  I've requested it in the upgrades thread andam waiting for a response.

Koen, do you know if it is already built for zaurus and if so, where is it?

Thanks!

[lardman]

These Angstrom packages come from the OE metadata, hrw should be able to build the version you want and add them to the upgrades feed (when he's back from holiday), to suit the various library versions you have, without any issues.

Si