New 11.1 installation no PPDs appear

[Budgie2]

I am trying to set up two new 11.1 machines. Printers are directly connected to lan, one old HPLJ5M and one HPCLJ2840.
When I try and set up printers in Yast I cannot get a list of drivers to show. The PPD file is showing as installed in Yast software management and CUPS files are in /usr/share/cups/model but when I try and find a driver I get error message

"Error failed to create PPD datdabase"
the details are "cannot access CUPSD on localhost"

Never had this problem before and now I have it on two machines. Must be losing it somewhere. What am I doing wrong.
Regards,
Budgie2

[Budgie2]

Originally Posted by Budgie2

I am trying to set up two new 11.1 machines. Printers are directly connected to lan, one old HPLJ5M and one HPCLJ2840.
When I try and set up printers in Yast I cannot get a list of drivers to show. The PPD file is showing as installed in Yast software management and CUPS files are in /usr/share/cups/model but when I try and find a driver I get error message

"Error failed to create PPD datdabase"
the details are "cannot access CUPSD on localhost"

Never had this problem before and now I have it on two machines. Must be losing it somewhere. What am I doing wrong.
Regards,
Budgie2

Cracked it thanks to another thread. Enabled ipv6 and then all went as usual.

[lwfinger]

On 11/11/2009 04:26 PM, Budgie2 wrote:
>
> Cracked it thanks to another thread. Enabled ipv6 and then all went as
> usual.

What made ipv6 needed? Is it something in your /etc/hosts file? As you probably
know, ipv6 really screws up Firefox when browsing.