installing USB printer
 

having trouble install a Lexmark z25 for slack 10. It's plugged in and seems to be detected fine, it shows up in dmesg and lsmod but for starters when i try to go to KDE's print manager and choose cups and try to install the printer it says no backends were found but it seems to be /dev/usb/lp0.

follows is my dmesg and lsmod:
root@h0me:~# dmesg | grep print
printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x043D pid 0x0057
printer.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
root@h0me:~# lsmod |grep print
printer 7744 0 (unused)
usbcore 59308 1 [audio snd-usb-audio hid usbmouse printer uhci]
root@h0me:~#

if ne one could help out it'd be greatly appreciated.

Thanx,

astro

one point to add, CUPS is retrieving information at the default port 631. Could it be a wrong host entry or something? I see that being a problem for most, but how can that be a problem when it's connected through usb?
Maybe i'm just not clear on how these printing systems work =\.

Even if your printer is detected, you need to configure it for use with CUPS, so in a web browser, you would run, "http://localhost:631" and add the printer.

You should check http://www.linuxprinting.org/ for the backend files for you printer.

Unfortunately when I glanced I didn't see yours listed over there.

Oh, and Lexmark isn't known for being Linux friendly.

Thats why I stick to the tried and trusted HP printers.

Me too, but just by a fluke.

Before I was serious about Linux I purchased my HP PSC 750, I went into the store intending to buy a Lexmark PSC but they were out.

The HP was a bit more but was still on clearance at a KMart that was being closed.

Whew! That was a close one. ;)

Some of us have hardware on hand before becoming Linux users is my point.

Tried "http://localhost:631" and sed connection refused so not sure if even my localhost is set up properly. Ne suggestions?

Maybe cups is not running, try doing
#chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups
then try to reconnect to http://localhost:631

same thing =\ connection refused. Not sure what i can do about this =\

Is cups installed? You can check this using "pkgtool" as root. If not install it, then using pkgtool, you can select to start cups at boot time or do as I posted above. You may have to reboot for things to take effect (some say you don't have to but it's worth trying if things don't work out without a reboot).

i'm sure cups is installed. And i've rebooted a million times which sucks cuz my whole philosophy on linux is always "you never need to reboot"... but wutever, when i'm completely fresh out of idea's i'll try ne thing... damn not sure what's going on with this cups thing tho

You don't usually have to reboot. I really don't know what your problem could be if cups is installed and running fine. It should be just accessible via the web browser if that was the case.

installing in CUPS
 

I'm trying to use the same printer in Debian 3.1. I installed it in CUPS through the web interface, but when I try to print the test page it doesn't work. It says: "usb port is busy..."

mario@nb-mac:~ $ dmesg | grep print
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: error -71 reading printer status
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: error -71 reading printer status

Where can I see what's happening?