[cups-devel] Need help debugging driver or finding workaround

Helge Blischke helgeblischke at web.de
Wed Dec 9 14:50:04 PST 2015


> Am 09.12.2015 um 19:31 schrieb Christian Seberino <cseberino at gmail.com>:
> 
> Even in the web interface I got an error adding the suffice to the URI. See
> below.
> I'm running CUPS 1.7.2 on Ubuntu 14.04.  The 2 troubling printers are
> Xerox Phaser 4622 and
> Xerox WorkCentre 7835.
> 
> I tried 3 different ways to use socket://10.87.20.41:9100?waiteof=false
> but they all failed.
> ============================================
> Add Printer B&W_Printer Error
> 
> Unable to add printer:
> 
> Bad device-uri "socket://10.87.20.41:9100?waiteof=false".
> 
> 
> 
Sorry, looking again into the docs and the sources revealed that the URI syntax
accounts for a resource designation just before the options, the first character or which
must be '/‚ .
So, change the device-URI to

socket://10.87.20.41:9100/?waiteof=false

That should work then (at least I hope so).

Helge


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