On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 15:18 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Vincent Onelli wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there some body that can help me to setup a printer? I am new on > > Linux, and most of the entry required I do not know what to enter in. > > I had send similar message before but I did not get any answer. I > > understand your have a large number of messages to get to, but please > > try to understand our new user problem, without your help we could not > > survive very long with Linux, I have several friends that tried Linux > > for a short period of time and then abandon it. I am the stubborn one, > > but now I am stuck,I need to use this printer it is the only one that I > > have to print on paper 17x22. > > I very much appreciate if some one can give me a detailed guideline on > > what to enter on various setup phase, one answer I received pointed me > > to http://localhost:631 but then what I enter to various steps? I try to > > enter some thing but Icould not get pass the verification stage the user > > or the password were not accepted, I assume that it want the root PW but > > I also tried the user PW, no luck. > > Some info on my system: > > Dell Dimension 8300. > > Netgear router WGR614v6 > > Printer Server Netgear PS101 > > Printer Epson Stylus Color 1520 > > It work fine with windows and these are the setting as listed on the > > Router: Printer Server Netgear PS101. Lan manager printer port > > PSE6D76B > > Printer server port LPT1:PSE6D76B > > Server Name PSE6D76B > > IP Address 192.168.1.3 > > > > Epson Setup: Name Epson1520 > > Hostname 192.168.1.3 > > Queue PSE6D76B > > > > Thank you in advance > > Vinny > > > Ok - the first thing is that the user and password it is asking for > defaults to root and root's password. Normal users login and > password do not work unless they are added. > > From there, you want the Administration tab. From there you can > click on the Find New Printers. If the printserver supports IPP, > then you can have CUPS can find it for you. It will do most of the > setup for you. > > If CUPS does not find the printer, you will have to use Add New > Printer. You then will want to pick LPD/LPR Host or Printer. > > The next step is to enter "lpd://192.168.1.3/PSE6D76B" at the Device > URI: prompt. From there it is just a matter of selecting your > printer from the menu. > > As the last step, you will have to enter root as the user name and > root's password for the password to save the new printer. > > Mikkel Except I don't see that the Epson 1520 is a supported printer so a driver will have to be downloaded and installed. Maybe from Epson web site, -- ======================================================================= "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?" -- Lily Tomlin ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
