Hi. I am using openSUSE tumbleweed and everything is working fine except the printer. It is an Epson network printer. I read that it has to be supported by openSUSE which wasn’t a requirement in any other distro i have used. When i go to the printer part in the system settings and try to add a printer, it returns with an error: 'unable to get a list of devices 'Forbidden.
Is there any way to solve this?
Use Yast----Hardware----Printer.
Maybe you have to Install the drivers from Epson first.
Because we don not know the Modell.
I do not know what “System Settings” you used, but in openSUSE one preferably uses YaST for System Management tasks. Did you try that?
It is an epson l6190 printer. I tried using yast, yet it didn’t work. And this printer has been working fine on fedora, manjaro, mx, etc.:(PLS is there any way to work around this?
That is not a very detailed description on how far you have gone and where things got stuck. Sorry, but people here are not clairvoyant and to be able to help with a computer technical problem they need a computer technical description.
So, i tried adding the printer via network options in yast, but it says no printers found. I tried every add printer option there. I also tried changing my account type to admin. Also, the desktop enviroment i am using is kde plasma 5.24.4.
For network printer you may need firewall settings.
Had the same issues with my Epson XP-8600 printer and got it going with the Cups web interface on http:// localhost:361. Use “root” for your username when prompted
Had the same issues with my Epson XP-8600 printer and got it going with the Cups web interface on http:// localhost:361. Use “root” for your username when prompted
This also works for me, but my printer is Epson L-5190. Also don’t forget to install the driver.
I’ve lost couple of hours because I installed the wrong driver.
I did that, but now i did a fresh install, installed the drivers, disabled the firewall, and now it doesn’t work anymore.
Please show the current CUPS configuration…
lpstat -t
sudo egrep -i "name|model|filter" /etc/cups/ppd/*