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Post by dirkengelage on Jun 25, 2010 3:07:11 GMT -5
Hi,
AFAICT all the hardware in or connected to my computer appears to be recognized correctly. However, there's a Kyocera Mita printer connected elsewhere in my small home network that I want to use from KNOS. I activated the CUPS manager, but when I start this and try to add a new printer, I'm asked for the Administrator (root) password, which is unknown to me. Help . . . <grin>
Dirk Engelage
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Jun 25, 2010 4:15:07 GMT -5
Hi, AFAICT all the hardware in or connected to my computer appears to be recognized correctly. However, there's a Kyocera Mita printer connected elsewhere in my small home network that I want to use from KNOS. I activated the CUPS manager, but when I start this and try to add a new printer, I'm asked for the Administrator (root) password, which is unknown to me. Help . . . <grin> Dirk Engelage Oh dear ... there ISN'T a root password. Normally, you just hit the enter key or OK. The KNOS user is deliberately not given a password to ensure that no external access to KNOS is possible. There is a "CUPS Manager" within Gnome that shouldn't be on the main menu which could be throwing such a prompt, so need to ask if you're referring to the "CONFIGURE YOUR LOCAL PRINTER" on the home page in Firefox instead. If so, then this is a surprise to me since we don't have any network printers on our end and weren't expecting any interference from CUPS. It should just find the network printer and let you use it. However, that's something we weren't able to check out for ourselves. But if you're getting thrown a prompt from the browser's CUPS thingy, it should have offered you that printer from the "Add printer" or "Find new printers" button and should have asked you to put in the location of the printer. I'm done for the night on my end, been working on the next build and will be happy to try to figure this out once I've gotten some sleep ... but wondering where you ended up in KNOS to have kissed that particular sidewalk ... can you tell me more about where you were when it coughed up that hairball? |
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Post by dirkengelage on Jun 29, 2010 4:09:12 GMT -5
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for your reply. It took a couple of days before I could make some time to boot to KNOS again. I must confess that I completely missed the 'configure your local printer' on the Firefox homepage. What I did was look for the CUPS manager, which I found through System / Preferences / Main Menu // System Tools / CUPS manager, activate that and work fro. there. After you pointed me in the right direction it was a rather straight-forward job to get the printer connected, set and working as expected. Thanks for that.
Next thing I'm going to check whether my CanoScan N670U USB scanner is being recognized and get it working.
friendly greetings,
Dirk Engelage
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Post by dirkengelage on Jun 29, 2010 4:28:21 GMT -5
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Next thing I'm going to check whether my CanoScan N670U USB scanner is being recognized and get it working.
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No idea how to get that done. Any tips, anyone? At least it's not recognizes upon connection. <grin>
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Jun 29, 2010 16:38:55 GMT -5
<quote> Next thing I'm going to check whether my CanoScan N670U USB scanner is being recognized and get it working. </quote> No idea how to get that done. Any tips, anyone? At least it's not recognizes upon connection. <grin> My fault there ... we envisioned KNOS as something to take on the road for business travel on a laptop or other situation where a guaranteed secure client would be needed for usual business purposes, or something to throw on your home computer when kids wanted to play games and such on it and as such, didn't consider the need to support scanners in our original design. Therefore, there's no backend in the current design for scanner support. Since there's apparently a desire for it and there *is* support available under BSD, we will add the SANE backend and client in our next build. You'll be pleased to know that your scanner and most others *are* supported, but with no backend in what you have, no handshake in this build. THANKS for the heads-up - never thought of the need for this before. |
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