Bug#578838: Please run with --debug

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Fri Aug 13 17:16:54 UTC 2010


severity 578838 normal
retitle 578838 Doesn't detect print queues on Netgear print servers
thanks

Hi John,
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 06:32:32PM +0930, John Pearson wrote:
> I've attached a transcript of "system-config-printer --debug",
> generated using s-c-p from experimental (1.2.3-0.1).
> 
> With this version it all went more or less as it should (no hang),
> although it did not identify the printer queue (for reference,
> Netgear print servers use queue names like 'p1' or 'p2').
Thanks for reporting back. Could you try this patch and see if it then
detects your printers (assuming these are lpd queues):

diff --git a/probe_printer.py b/probe_printer.py
index 56bf7a1..7ab3d0c 100644
--- a/probe_printer.py
+++ b/probe_printer.py
@@ -167,6 +167,9 @@ class LpdServer:
         for nr in range (50):
             candidate.append ("pr%d" % nr)
 
+        for nr in range (5):
+            candidate.append ("p%d" % nr)
+
         return candidate
 
     def probe(self):

Cheers,
 -- Guido






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