CUPS and Asante cable router LPD printer Port

[Johan]

> I am running suse9.1 pro. Usinf hp lj 6p attached to the above asante
> cable router built in parallel port providing LPD service.
> I am new to Linux. First tried RH8 and the printer worked defining as
> lpr and queue as lp.  I  switched over to suse 9.1  as I found that rh8
> support is not availabe. I am having tough time with cups to make my
> printer work. Defined as network printer
>
> RH8 Printcap: Worked
>
> # /etc/printcap
>
> AsantePrint:\
>     :ml#0:\
>     :mx#0:\
>     :sd=/var/spool/lpd/AsantePrint:\
>     :af=/var/spool/lpd/AsantePrint/AsantePrint.acct:\
>     :sh:\
>     :rm=192.168.123.254:\
>     :rp=lp:\
>     :lpd_bounce=true:\
>     :if=/usr/share/printconf/util/mf_wrapper:
>
>
>
> Q1: I read many documents in various places to fix the cups  problem.
> Learned quite a bit but not to the level to fix  the printing. Michael
> got me out of the mud when cupsd.conf  problem (cups abend 98) due to
> yast (suse configurator)  bogged me down for 5 days.  Where can I learn
> about CUPS setup for above lp configuration  step by step?
>
> Q2: How cups supports this  lpd server?   Does cups server  on pc talk
> to lpd/ Where cups client comes to play?
>
> Q3: What is foomatic and PPD? Which one to use? How they are used?
> I see laserjet.ppd and hpijs.ppd in the model file.
>
> Q4. With the following confign, printing light comes on and nothing prints!
>
> Suse printers.conf:
> # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.20
> # Written by cupsd on Tue 29 Jun 2004 09:01:12 PM EDT
> <DefaultPrinter lp>
> Info hp1
> Location b1
> DeviceURI lpd://192.168.123.254/lp
> State Idle
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> </Printer>
>
> printcap:
>
> lp|lp:rm=(none):rp=lp:
>
>
> Q5: Is ther any free 3rd party cups like package available?
>
> Thanks for the help.
> Nathan
>
>
>
>
I am no expert on cups - you probably know very much more. But it seems you haven't got any answers so maybee this will help:

One thing that might help you when you have a distribution where the printer works is to simply copy the cups-directories from that distribution to the new one!

I did it when I had cups work in suse 9.0 but couldn't get the fileserver (ClarkConnect - based on redhat) to work as a printserver. I copied the whole directories to the other computer, and it was not even the same kernel on the two. But it worked. Just make sure you don't try to modify the printer through yast afterwards since yast uses its own configurationfiles and will write over the original cups configuration files. But you can modify the printer through localhost:631

Take it if it helps - otherwise forget what I have written.