trying to configure xerox phaser 3117 printer on fedora core 5

[vidyadhara buddhiraju]

And the driver tar file provided on the xerox website does not run at all. Only the drivers provided with the cd that came with the printer work.

regards
vidya

> I was able to run the shell script that came on the CD with the printer. And then the printer works from fedora 5 desktop.
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> However I cannot share it on the network.
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> Atleast I can transfer files to that machine and then print from there. Just about adequate as a work around for my need.
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> would like to share the printer on the network though.
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> regards
> vidya
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> > I was trying to configure xerox phaser 3117 on fedora core 5. The configuration says it works fine.
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> > (from localhost:631).
> > But the test page always aborts.
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> > Then I deleted the printer and tried to add the printer through the command line
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> > #lpadmin -p Phaser3117 -E -v usb:/dev/usb/lp0 -m /etc/cups/ppd/Phaser-3117.ppd
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> > The thing fails
> > lpadmin: add-printer (set model) failed: server-error-internal-error
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> > I am not able to decipher any of the documentation on the web or the cups documentation that came with the installatino of cups with fedora.
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> > Is there any hope of printing something from linux.
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> > regards
> > vidya
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