[SOLVED] Re: Missing a generic printer driver

[janne.jokitalo at dnainternet.net]

Quoting janne.jokitalo at dnainternet.net:

Yeah, I know.... How lame is it to reply to one's own emails.... Well here goes:

> it seems I have messed up with printer drivers in a bad way and now
> I cannot find a generic printer driver. Does anyone have an idea how to 
> add it to the list of manufacturers?

It was fairly easy, however one could call it a dirty hack. I'm sure it can be
done 'the right way', however I couldn't find it before I tried my own.

The problem was solved when I gunzipped a file
'Generic-PCL_5c_Printer-hpijs.ppd.gz' from /usr/share/ppd/Generic/ and moved it
to /usr/share/cups/model. Now the printer add dialog could find it, and I was
able to proceed.

However, the site that I linked in my previous post didn't help further. I could
not use the printer the lpd way. It corrected out when I used the printer by
giving the connection info in smb://username:passwd@machine.domain/printer way.

Now it prints fine.

Thanks again for help, and sorry about the noise I generated.


-- 
Jaska