From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B8DBC138359 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 04:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58724E0885; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 04:17:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out1.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out1.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.210]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63721E087B for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 04:17:03 +0000 (UTC) X-SMTP-MATCH: 0 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2CFAgBykptf/2F069xiGgEBAQEBAQE?= =?us-ascii?q?BAQEDAQEBARIBAQEBAgIBAQEBQAeBSAKCHnpVAQEBhRuJBYZLAwEBAQaBDC6?= =?us-ascii?q?EH4YAkB6BaAsBAQEBAQEBAQEJLwQBAYRKAoIIJjkFDQIQAQEBBQEBAQEBBgM?= =?us-ascii?q?Bhl6FcwEFIzMzCxgCAiYCAlcTCAEBgyIBglckrGGBMoEyhVeFBoEOKo1VeYE?= =?us-ascii?q?HgREnD4JaPoN+gQyCSoJfBJBli01SmxWCdpp2BQcDH5JIjx20KYEyOoF5TR8?= =?us-ascii?q?ZgyVPGQ2cdTQBAQFoAgYKAQEDCY5IAQE?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2CFAgBykptf/2F069xiGgEBAQEBAQEBAQEDAQEBARIBA?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBAgIBAQEBQAeBSAKCHnpVAQEBhRuJBYZLAwEBAQaBDC6EH4YAkB6BaAsBA?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBAQEBAQEJLwQBAYRKAoIIJjkFDQIQAQEBBQEBAQEBBgMBhl6FcwEFIzMzC?= =?us-ascii?q?xgCAiYCAlcTCAEBgyIBglckrGGBMoEyhVeFBoEOKo1VeYEHgREnD4JaPoN+g?= =?us-ascii?q?QyCSoJfBJBli01SmxWCdpp2BQcDH5JIjx20KYEyOoF5TR8ZgyVPGQ2cdTQBA?= =?us-ascii?q?QFoAgYKAQEDCY5IAQE?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,432,1596470400"; d="scan'208";a="326204053" Received: from 220-235-116-97.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO mail.infra.localdomain) ([220.235.116.97]) by icp-osb-irony-out1.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 30 Oct 2020 12:16:58 +0800 Received: from localhost (mail.infra.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.infra.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 270FC1187E7 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:16:58 +0800 (AWST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from mail.infra.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.infra.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nkZD0mCARxfk for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:16:53 +0800 (AWST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network printer not being found To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <3083336.44csPzL39Z@peak> From: William Kenworthy Message-ID: Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:44:27 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.4.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3083336.44csPzL39Z@peak> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-AU X-Archives-Salt: a03f1328-f5fb-456e-b5f5-aa2fb04b1689 X-Archives-Hash: 4f64c979eb63ab8f7b7640063d3c886b On 29/10/20 10:16 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Afternoon all, > > Before my trials with booting, and eventually rebuilding everything from the > ground up, my Lexmark C2425 printer was working fine. Now the KDE system > settings printer applet can't detect it, even though pinging it works. > > Then when I point firefox to localhost:631 cups's behaviour has changed. If I > click Adding Printers and Classes, instead of a dialogue to let me add a > printer I now get a help page telling me how to do it at the command line. > > Even if I do manage to add the printer, cups reports that it isn't responding. > I take this to mean I'm not using the right protocol. I've tried IPP, IPPS, > HTTP and HTTPS, following that help page. > > Package.use is the same as before, and I've tried with cups-browsed both > running and not. > > What am I missing? > Sounds like to clicked on the (somewhat fuzzily named) "adding Printers and Classes" on the main page - thats actually the help page which you described. Try clicking on Administration on the top line and then add printer. BillK