Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

[Andrew Parker]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> wrote:
>> "lpinfo -l -v" does not list the printers I use, but does list others,
>> but with no device IDs:
>>
>> Device: uri = socket://172.26.33.191
>>         class = network
>>         info = HP LaserJet 4050 Series
>>         make-and-model = HP LaserJet 4050 Series
>>         device-id =
>>         location =
>> Device: uri = socket://172.26.33.192
>>         class = network
>>         info = Xerox WorkCentre 5638 v1 Multifunction System
>>         make-and-model = Xerox WorkCentre 5638 v1 Multifunction System
>>         device-id =
>>         location = machine location not set
>>
>> What would you like me to do?
>
> It might be that these printers support SNMP.  You could try running the
> snmp backend for them directly, like:
>
> /usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp 172.26.33.191
>
> Ideally the 'lpinfo' command would have collected that information
> already -- the reason it doesn't is that our default firewall drops
> responses to SNMP broadcast queries (see bug #538675).  Direct
> (non-broadcast) queries are fine.
>

Not much from this, but I've run it from F12.  Do you need results
from the live cd?

# /usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp 172.26.33.191
network socket://172.26.33.191 "HP LaserJet 4050 Series " "HP LaserJet
4050 Series " "" ""
# /usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp 172.26.33.192
network socket://172.26.33.192 "Xerox WorkCentre 5638 v1 Multifunction
System" "Xerox WorkCentre 5638 v1 Multifunction System" "" "machine
location not set"

The nw printers that I do use also don't yield much info.

I have the firewall disabled, btw so it shouldn't have affected my
previous response.