On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:59:56 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> I've been advised, more or less btw in an otherwise scarcely >> related thread, to quit using my KVM switch (which has spare USB ports >> touted by the maker especially for printserving) as a printserver. >> >> So I plugged the printer (an HP psc 1315v) into my #1 machine; >> and I've been telling Firefox 127.0.0.1:631 on each of the machines, >> and trying to get it to work. >> >> I thought I had it; and when I print at all, it's most often from >> Alpine 2.0. So I've been trying to print one Alpine message from each >> machine. >> >> One at least told me the printer seemed not to be connected. The >> others have adamantly done nothing. >> >> Since all I know of printing would go in a gnat's eye, and Alpine >> has several printing options (none of which I understand well), my >> first thought is to try to find out if I have a pure Alpine problem, a >> pure CUPS problem, or something else. Can anybody tell?? >> > Dumb question - is the new printer connection set as the default > printer? I am guessing that the USB connection through the KVM switch > was the default printer on each machine. I think so. They all show it twice, in fact : as psc-1310- series-, and either the same with underlines instead of hyphens, or with a "2" at the end. I've just tried the troubleshooter on two or three of the machines, against each iteration of the printer, and gotten reports, but no solution. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines