printer pblms

[Matthew Gillen]

dan moylan wrote:
> for christmas, my daughter gave me a copy of "linux user"
> with an attached Suse 10 DVD, and  after living with red
> hat from 5.2 to FC4, i thought i'd try it.  for the most
> part i've been pleasantly surprised at the ease of
> installation.  only two known issues remain: printer,
> and sound, and i've put off the sound issues 'til later.
> 
> re the printer, i invoked yast, which duely found my
> attached printer -- hp920c at /dev/usb/lp0.  well, when
> i try lp (or lpr) they don't seem to know about the
> printer.  lpadmin didn't seem to help either.  this is
> obviously a simple problem, but i'm stumbling.  a word
> to the wise would be much appreciated.

Does Suse use Cups or LPRng? (check to see what package owns
/usr/bin/lp) I would assume CUPS.  I would check /etc/printcap and
/etc/cups/printers.conf for oddities.

--Matt