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caprea
Sorry, I don’t have much experience in seeking the ip-adress of a printer. Maybe someone else can contribute here. I have one printer over wifi, where I could set a static ip-adress on the printer itself.
Anyway a newer version of cups wouldn’t help you here neither.mmmmna wrote:so in reality, I should have selected No
If you have a usb-cable and want to go the easy way you can retry the whole installation by choosing No and use the usb-port.
mmmmna
Problem is completely resolved.
Long process.
I was running Mate as I prefer the DE experience.
After my earlier post, Antix 16.2 started having a major issue.
I had not issued a command for several minutes when I noticed my mouse was moving very erratically.
I managed to get a terminal to open up, I issued command top, and surprise of surprises, Mate panel applet and another Mate entry were eating 100% CPU time. Well, that’s just too bad. I yanked out my flash drives and immediately powered off since I had no idea why this happened. I rebooted from the DVD-RW where I had burned Antix 16.2 for 64 bit. I opened the terminal in the live session, issued DD to write zeros to the root partition where my OS had been installed. Effectively, I deliberately killed the installed OS, because I haven’t the time to spend days investigating potential issues. I need the PC to work for me, not the other way around. I reinstalled Antix 16.2 for 64 bit once more. While live, I managed to reset my router so that I could see connected devices. Why did it lose that? No ideas.
This time, I selected the Stretch repositories, hoping for newer versions.
Since Antix 16.2 for 64 bit had finished installing to the PC hard disk, I rebooted into the installed OS.
I installed Mate once more. I once more attempted installing the HL-L2360DW drivers.
Again, the test print failed.
Browser, localhost:631 showed Cups 2.2.1, much more to my liking versus 1.7.5 from the first installation (where I had selected to use more conservative repositories).
Went to the printer, ran through the menus and found a menu item to print a WLAN report. That printout gave me a MAC address. Went to the router, logged in, went to the connected devices listing, I saw that the printer MAC address was assigned an IP address, so I opened a console, issued a ping -c2 to that IP address, and I got responses. Ping can talk to it!
I opened a new tab in my browser, went the the same IP address for the printer. Yes, there I see the expected printer administration screen.I went back to the CUPS tab in my browser, clicked to manage the HL-L2360DW. I opened the printer queue, modified it to use ipp://ip-address-from-router. Saved the ipp:// configuration, told CUPS to have it print a test page, and all is fine.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by mmmmna. Reason: Omitted discussing restarting
- This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by mmmmna. Reason: Put entry into the wrong location. Duh
- This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by mmmmna.
caprea
Nice to hear you managed it!
Sometimes its better to make a new start.Sadly, I get a lot of flack for frequently reinstalling instead of investigating what I have, but the point of me using my computer is to get work done. Immediately.
Thanks for following and helping me, caprea, is nice to have someone ally them self to my needs.
caprea
Unfortunately I couldn’t help you so much. I didnt see that you were still using jessie respectively oldstable.
Anyway, I have a system, which is running testing for years, without any major issues.
The problem is, you have to take care, that it doesn’t pull in libsystemdhttps://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/xfce-installation-on-antix-17/#post-1151
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