Re: CUPS and USB

From: Bill Marcum <marcumbill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:57:33 -0400

On 2007-10-31, The Natural Philosopher <a@xxx> wrote:

..tryng to get a USB printer going..debian etch/cups/usb/webmin

NOW Ive intstalled all the latest drivers, but the CUPS/webmin stuff
does not present me with a USB option, just a load of serial and
parallel ports?

Anyone know the magic spell?

Try setting it up as a network printer but with usb:// as the URL.

NB the printer is not plugged in at this point..

Why not?
.

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