problems adding new printer

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 12:58:42 UTC 2012


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.



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