printer not found and no manual option apparent

[Paul Douglas]

> On Dec 19, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Paul Douglas wrote:
> >> More than likely the issue is just that the 175 does not support SNMP or has the wrong network configuration (and so isn't responding to the broadcast address(es) used by your computer...)
> >
> > why then does exactly the same printer work perfectly well with CUPS 1.4 on linux but not 1.5 on FreeBSD?
>
> Linux and FreeBSD are two completely different operating systems with different network stacks. You might try running the CUPS 1.4.x SNMP backend on FreeBSD, but the only substantive change between 1.4 and 1.5's SNMP backends is the addition of IPv6 support.
>
Ok thank you very much for taking the time to reply; given your comments I decided to approach things differently and ignore the search and just manually install it as a AppSocket printer, and that works fine.
>
> If we can't get the "description" property from the device we won't show it.

still not sure what made other versions of cups find it as an unknown printer though!

Thanks again!