Hi everyone,
Today I tried to introduce my printer (HP Photosmart c309a) to my elive system, but it did not work. The process stops as soon as I select the printer from the database and click 'Forward'. Nothing happens any more after that. the window with the printer/driver selection just stays open forever.
The printer is attached to my router with a USB cable, and my laptop is wirelessly connected to the router.
Any ideas what stops the system from going on? No error messages or the like unfortunately.
Seeing it's a network printer: You did try to discover it as a network printer, I hope?
It shouldn't actually require any configuration.
Your router should have the drivers.
Yes, and I just tried a direct USB cable connection laptop/printer. Does not work either, although the printer obviously is recognzed. It looks for drivers and stops without finishing the process.
i know that the printer configurator of the 3.0 version is not -so- stable, it had a few minor things that didn't worked
if im not wrong, there's 2 types of printer configurators included because of that
or you can also try to use the next beta versions which has a much newer printer configurator tools included
So what is the other printer configurator, then?
And might that mean no printing for me on elive 3.0.6?
I don't remember :), try cups-TAB to see the autocompletion commands, maybe with sudo too
cups (printer system) has also a web configurator, which should be more stable, try to configure it from web:
And might that mean no printing for me on elive 3.0.6?
you can, unless you need a specific newer driver, what i meant is that the conifgurator (tool) included had a few issues, but thats a problem of the tool itself (only), not with the printing system
OK, thank you, I'll try this and tell you what happened.
I got the printer added throupgh the CUPS web frontend finally as you recommended as an alternative. Strange, though, because system-config-printer to me only seems to be another frontend which works without any problems in all other Linux distros I use. And I do not have an exotic printer - it's a HP Photosmart C309a - either. There must be a problem in the collusion of a part of Elive and system-config-printer, then.
But at least now I can print and there is a good viable workaround for all those who cannot add a printer on Elive so far.
Thank you for your help
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that's because of the version, which seems like to had a few issues in the version used for elive-3.0, which is sad but we cannot do much.
By other side, newer versions of elive should have this improved 
Good to know that you can print without problems now 
Yeah, being unable to print means not being able to communicate in an analogue way to the analog world out there.
