Anne Wilson wrote:
On 23/01/12 20:29, Neal Becker wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>
>> On 23/01/12 15:06, Neal Becker wrote:
>>> I was so happy to see, maybe 1 year back, that fedora/kde had finally
>>> progressed to the point that when I tried to add my home printer it was
>>> autodetected, and I didn't have to specify the make, model, etc.
>>>
>>> Not any more. Seems pretty broken now.
>>>
>>> I seem to have 3 ways to try to add a printer. I can use system settings
>>> (kde).
>>> This, unlike the other ways, actually works. But it doesn't detect my
>>> printer, and I do need to select make/model etc.
>>>
>>> The other two ways I find by opening application launcher and search for
>>> 'print' which shows 2 items, 1 called 'printer configuration'
and 1 called
>>> 'printing'.
>>> Neither of them work at all. The first gives me
>>> 'cups-authorization-cancelled' when I try to add a new printer,
without
>>> having ever asked for any
>>> authorization. (This seems to be just another way to get to the kde
>>> printer
>>> config dialog, but a broken one). The other seems like a gnome version.
>>> IIRC this one also fails but later in the process.
>>>
>> Adding a printer through the CUPS page (localhost:631) has always
>> required you to be root. Did you go to the Admin page and log in as
>> root? In the past I found that it is often best to set up the printer
>> on this interface before doing anything else, but then I've used hplip
>> to set up mine for the past 3 years, so things could be different now.
>>
>> Then again, have you tried system-config-printer?
>>
>> Other than that, it might help if you gave us a clue what printer you
>> are trying to add, in case there are any specifics.
>>
>> Anne
>
> I'm not particularly looking for help here in setting up my printer. I'm
> concerned for the poor fedora noob, who will find the process pretty much
> broken.
>
I've not found it so, but if you have, please find out what went wrong
and document it. That's more help to a newbie than simply saying it's
broken.
Anne
If you read my post, I think you'll see I did try to describe the problem. I
did at least go to the trouble of trying these dialogs again and telling what
happened.