Hi
Could you please post the name, model etc. of the printer and whether it is IEE o USB or?
more information usually means more responses.
woodsmoke
I'm trying to setup a printer with knoppix live CD 5.1.1
First I got an error occured while retrieving the list of available backends ...
So I opened the root shell and typed cupsd - that got rid of my error and fixed that problem. But now I'm trying to add a printer and the add a local printer is greyed out. I've done a lot of google searching but can't seem to find a solution to the problem.
How can I get access to add a local printer? Can someone please walk me through.
Hi
Could you please post the name, model etc. of the printer and whether it is IEE o USB or?
more information usually means more responses.
woodsmoke
woops, okay the printer has a serial connected cable epson stylus color 400 printer. Don't think computer model matters, I tried it on my toshiba laptop and on an old P4 dell desktop.
From the main menu I chose Knoppix->Configure->Configure printers to open the printer wizard then I clicked on add a printer.
Okay but the local printer (which is what I want) is greyed out. ??? I've done a lot of searching but cannot find anyone with the same issue. Could be the knoppix version I'm using but then everyone would be experiencing the same problem. Maybe I have to set it up as a TCP/IP port but I don't know what the address is at all. It's not really on a network anyway. It's hooked up to the docking station of my laptop. If the Local printer was not greyed out I'm sure it would be a breeze. I'm really at a loss here as to how to get my printer to work.
Any help?

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