I have many computers running opensuse tumbleweed. I just did a clean install on my laptop, using the current Tumbleweed iso. CUPS and YAST printer tool can find and install my printers that are on the local LAN. But, the printers do not respond and test pages do not print. I can’t ping the printers via IP address and I can’t find the printers via IP address in the CUPS or YAST add printer tools. I have turned the laptop firewall off via YAST. (Printers could not be “found” while firewall was on. I normally install via socket://[IP]:9100, but that is not working either. I can print from other computers on the same network, to the same printers identified by the laptop CUPS install.
I removed and reinstalled all cups-related files, it didn’t help. It seems like there may be some sort of firewall problem, but I am unable to identify it.
This may well be due to an incorrect printer driver.
I can’t ping the printers via IP address and I can’t find the printers via IP address in the CUPS or YAST add printer tools. I have turned the laptop firewall off via YAST. (Printers could not be “found” while firewall was on.
That is as expected. For CUPS ‘auto-detection’ to work when configuring it is best to stop the firewall temporarily since it relies on printer broadcasts (eg Avahi, SNMP) to work.
Any ideas what else to do?
The first thing to do is provide printer model details.
Oops - I missed your opening comments about not being able to ping the network printers by IP address. This implies a networking issue to sort (rather than a CUPS configuration issue). Do you have connectivity to the LAN? Can you at least ping the gateway router?
What do the following return?
ip address
ip route
Are the printers configured with known valid static IP addresses?
Correct deduction - NETWORKING PROBLEM, solved by restarting my cable modem. Simple when you know the modem might be a problem, not easy when you don’t. By process of elimination, I discovered the problem was only on the wireless card – ethernet would work – and then, that it was also on the same network card in the Win10 dual boot. I had checked my login to the modem looking for some sort of firewall or filtering, but could not find anything and couldn’t find anything in the manual. I verified the wireless problem was isolated to my laptop by connecting via another laptop. Somewhere, I found a reference to “resetting the router/modem” – and why this should be, I do not know. But, it worked. After resetting modem, I could ping all the devices on the LAN (same as I could via ethernet or via other computers) and so problem solved.*
