Problems installing Xerox Phaser 3121 printer
 

Hi!

I got a Xerox Phaser 3121 laser printer (I think it's a model just for South America) and I never could get the thing working, due to an authorization problem in Linux Printer Configuration Utility. I don't know if this is a part of the Linux system (using SUSE 9.2 now) or if it comes with the Xerox driver. After successfully installing the driver, it starts up this Linux Printer Configuration, where I'm supposed to click on the Add button (in root session). Everything goes OK up to then, but now I get a window with the request to enter the root password. I do so, and I get an error window telling me that the authorization failed. Thus, I cannot get it working.

If I use the YAST2 printer configuration utility, it detects the printer but no controllers are available by default for this printer, so it cannot make it available for CUPS. I tried manually entering the PPD (which is installed by the driver installation program), but it tells me "No PPDs have been downloaded" or something like that.

Any idea how can I fix this? I use the printer with no probs in WinXP.

THANKS!!!

FIXED!!!
 

Got it fixed.

It seems that SUSE made a kind of parallel security system for CUPS and you have to establish a specific password, issuing the command (from root session):

There you have to type in the root password for configuring CUPS and then use it.

After that I got in the mess of finding out which /dev I had to use for my printer (using USB). At first I tried /dev/lp0 but didn't work so I tried /dev/usb/lp0 and it worked!

Hope this helps someone.