On 09/13/2011 02:29 PM, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 09:54 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: >> > I have a Brother MFC665CW connected wirelessly. I installed the cups and >> > lpd driver rpms from the Brother site, and run a cups service on the >> > computers which use that printer. >> > >> > The URI for the printer is: usb:/dev/usb/lp0 > That's the URI for a*locally*-connected printer, not a > wirelessly-connected one. > > Tim. As I said, Tim, *why* that URI I have no idea. That printer has NEVER been connected with a wire of any sort ehternet OR parallel port. I configured it using the front panel, it showed up in the router and I could ping it, etc. so I installed the drivers and it worked. The *only* possible scenario that I can think of, is that the local (on the laptop) cupswrapper driver daemon writes *there* and the brother lpr driver uses that as a socket and sends the print job on to the printer using wifi. So it appears to be a locally connected printer because the drivers obscure the 'unconnectedness' of it. This same sort of thing shows up when connecting network printers to a guest WinXP instance in virtualbox. An HP printer connected through a lpd/lpr print server is 'installed' in the WinXP guest as a 'network' printer using the 'http://IP-address/pASTHRU', while an HP MFC (using hplip) is selected as a LOCAL printer in the WinXP guest install using a TCPIP 'port': socket://ip-address/:9100. I have never tried to install the Brother MFC into the Win guest, but I think it would be a 'network' printer. Geoff -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
