Ok, I don't know if this is the correct forum. If not, then I ask the mods to move it accordingly.

Anyways, at my mom's house, I tried to set up her printer via http://localhost:631/

It did not work. Firefox said:
>>>Problem loading page<<<

At my place, localhost works just fine.

Recently I had a thought.

I have a phone line. I only use it for DSL internet. I do not even have a phone connected to the landline. In other words, the cable coming from the wall jack goes right into my DSL modem.

She has a phone line. She uses it for both DSL internet and land line phone service. Thus, there is a "signal splitter" on the cable after it emerges from the wall jack. Obviously one end goes into her DSL modem and the other end goes into the phone.

My question:

Could having a "signal splitter" be the reason I can not get localhost to work? I doubt it, but I wanted to see what others have to say.

Thanks!

The phone splitter is not the problem.

Do you have cups installed on her computer?
Check to make sure you have localhost defined properly.

lazlow

Probably CUPS is either not installed or not running but if you're 100% sure that it is, try these to make sure that you don't have a problem in your hosts file:

No, CUPS is not installed. I can't reach CUPS because I can't reach the "localhost."

Could you please clarify what you mean by making sure I hae the localhost "defined properly?"

I don't understand what you mean.

FYI: I have used the online hplip guide / how to but it just doesn't help me with this problem. Strangely, I have no problem setting up localhost, CUPS, etc on my pc at my place and yes, I used the online hplip / how to for guidance.

I am guessing I write those in konsole, correct?

/ noob

To start with you will have to install cups. Install it just like you did on your home machine.

In a terminal type: ping localhost
If it finds something then localhost is defined. If it does not post back and we will deal with that issue separately.

Lazlow

Yes of course.