From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: dave.givens@phaldor.co.uk
Cc: BlueZ Mailing List <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Belkin Bluetooth USB Printer Adapter
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 13:48:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1099313330.16247.91.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <418601B6.2010905@phaldor.co.uk>
Hi Dave,
> I am writing to you as I cannot find the help I require on the net
> and the product manufactures will not help. I have a bluetooth printer
> adapter which I am trying to set up on Linux (Fedora Core 2, Kernel
> 2.6.8). I have read Marcels web pages and downloaded the relevant
> software, but even though I have copied the bluetooth file into the
> directory as instructed and created an entry in printers.conf, the
> printer/adapter does not appear anywhere in the gnome printer software
> that I know of. It might be that I am looking in the wrong places, it
> appears as an item in gnome-bluetooth-manager, but the only chooses of
> printers in the printer configuration gui are dev/lp0 and ptal. Am I
> looking in the correct place? Is it a Fedora Core 2 problem? Have I
> installed the software correctly? Any help you can give me will be
> greatfully accepted as I have spent two weeks trying to get it to work.
> I have tried installing as a custom device, but it rejects even that.
actually the CUPS backend is included in bluez-utils-2.10 and I think
you should use this version, because the other is no longer maintained.
However the printers.conf file is gone and you have to setup your
Bluetooth printer manually by entering the URI.
Regards
Marcel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-01 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-01 9:28 [Bluez-users] Belkin Bluetooth USB Printer Adapter Dave Givens
2004-11-01 12:48 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
[not found] ` <418650E3.3070909@phaldor.co.uk>
2004-11-01 15:57 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-11-01 17:22 ` Dave Givens
2004-11-01 17:27 ` Marcel Holtmann
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