I have been trying to install my Lexmark e210 printer using the following references:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml
http://www.linuxprinting.org
So far this is what I've done (not necessarily in order):
- From linuxprinting.org I established that my printer is supported with a Samsung driver, turns out Samsung makes the Lexmark e210. I downloaded the driver and untarred it.
- made sure that the modules for usb support and usb printer support were added
- emerged cups
- emerged foomatic
- emerged ghostscript
- emerged gimp-print
- modprobe printer
- modprobe usbcore
- emerged Hotplug
- moved the ppd file into /usr/share/cups/model/
- added the printer using the cups browser interface where I get this:
Code:
Description: Location: /usr/share/cups/model/ Printer State: processing, accepting jobs. "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds..." Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0
Here are the errors in /var/log/cups/error_log file from the last few days:
Code:
E [03/Jan/2004:00:43:48 -0500] PID 11669 crashed on signal 9!
E [03/Jan/2004:00:43:48 -0500] PID 11670 crashed on signal 9!
E [03/Jan/2004:01:33:16 -0500] Bad request line "request id is Lexmark-E210-gdi.ppd-11 (1 file(s))"!
E [03/Jan/2004:01:34:19 -0500] Bad request line "request id is Lexmark-E210-gdi.ppd-12 (1 file(s))"!
I've tried looking at the ppd file to see what the 'Bad request line' is all about and have no clue what's going on there. Any idea what is going here?
This is a condensed post of the thread I started on the Gentoo forums:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=751426#751426
