I can mount my Samsung on my windows xp laptop and print from my linux box over a home network with no problems. When I try to mount the same printer directly on the linux box - either usb or parallel I cannot communicate with it - no print out no time! I am using CUPS in both installations and the same driver. The printed file appears in the print cue -KJobViewer - as processing then changes to error and there is no print out. Perhaps the error is with the queueing? any suggestions? The linux box detected the printer the first time I connected it to the USB port but has never found the printer again when I move the connection from USB to parallel and back.
On Wed October 15 2008 08:56 pm, clivesteventon wrote:
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> I can mount my Samsung on my windows xp laptop and print from my linux
> box over a home network with no problems. When I try to mount the same
> printer directly on the linux box - either usb or parallel I cannot
> communicate with it - no print out no time! I am using CUPS in both
> installations and the same driver. The printed file appears in the
> print cue -KJobViewer - as processing then changes to error and there is
> no print out. Perhaps the error is with the queueing? any suggestions?
> The linux box detected the printer the first time I connected it to the
> USB port but has never found the printer again when I move the
> connection from USB to parallel and back.
>
>
See if this link helps you out
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Samsung-ML-1740
Good Luck
P. V.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum.
PV has pointed you to the op page; we have a 2040 and it runs fine; we downloaded the splix driver; you need to decide if you have 32bit or 64bit suse; suse runs LSB 3.1 so choose the relevant rpm; download rpm to a folder; and right click an install with package manager; aka YaST; YaST also quickly grabbed a couple of packages whilst configuring; now works great;
I have solved the problem. The ML-1740 was not found in KDE, Yast or Cups setups and could not be esily configured. There is a bug in the SuSe provided ;)cupsd.conf file which appears to have been written for KDE/SuSE. I replaced that file with a generic cups configuration file:
cupsd.conf.default
also in the SuSe installation and found in the /etc/cups directory.
A generic file from the cups site would probably also work. The printer now mounts properly and prints with the Samsung driver from the SuSe list. Previously the best it would do was enter the /var/spool/cups and sit there forever. Now it works,
I also have the printer mounted from my laptap over a home network. The laptop uses windowxp. The correct driver must be used in the windowsxp setup - Generic MS Publisher Imagesetter works. The linux printer queue requires a postscript file, not the rastor file sent to the queue from windowsxp if the Samsung driver is mounted.
clivesteventon;)