[OpenIndiana-discuss] Printer configuration, no manufacturers listed?

Daniel Kjar dkjar at elmira.edu
Tue Oct 18 16:45:55 UTC 2011


ARRGHHH!!!!  on a clean install of OI 151a i had to shutdown some print 
services do a whole bunch of crap and finally got the cups webmin up and 
working but it is unstable.  On my machine that has been updated since 
solaris it is a complete CF.  Has no one else run into problems like this?

On 10/18/11 10:11 AM, Michael Schuster wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 16:06, Daniel Kjar<dkjar at elmira.edu>  wrote:
>> I have no idea.  Since you call them necessary I would assume when I updated
>> to 151a they would have been included in the update.  Is there a name for
>> these necessary packages?
> I have no idea :-) I guess you've tried "pkg search print" or similar
> ... (can't test myself, I'm 100km from my nearest Solaris box)
>
> HTH
>> On 10/18/11 09:54 AM, Michael Schuster wrote:
>>> a guess: have you installed all necessary packages?
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 15:46, Daniel Kjar<dkjar at elmira.edu>    wrote:
>>>> Trying to get a printer installed and when I go to the gui new print
>>>> manager
>>>> I am only offered stylus and photosmart or some crap like that with the
>>>> manufacturers box greyed out.  Any ideas?  Seems like a step backward
>>>> from
>>>> solaris....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>> Dr. Daniel Kjar
>> Assistant Professor of Biology
>> Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
>> Elmira College
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>>
>> "...humans send their young men to war; ants send their old ladies"
>>         -E. O. Wilson
>>
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-- 
Dr. Daniel Kjar
Assistant Professor of Biology
Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Elmira College
1 Park Place
Elmira, NY 14901
607-735-1826
http://faculty.elmira.edu/dkjar

"...humans send their young men to war; ants send their old ladies"
	-E. O. Wilson






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