This is unfortunately a deal breaker.
I have been trying all week to get Linux/GNU going for an elderly lady, and
she is beginning to say she wishes that she had not started down this path.
Most of the delay has been sorting out which bit of hardware was faulty and
finding that it was the BT line. Luckily that is now out of my hands and in
the capable hands of Newnet.
I brought the box home yesterday to my functioning connection and in 40
minutes had Lenny + desktop up and running.
But she unfortunately has a Dell AIO 922 printer. Although this printer is
said to make a good doorstop, research suggests that it will print, but only
print, with the Lexmark z55 or z600 drivers. Since she only uses it for
photocopying and printing and the former doesn't require a computer, this
would be fine.
But I am failing where others have succeeded. :-( I first installed the z55,
then when that failed to work I tried to install the z600. I got that in
such a tangle that I couldn't even untangle it, so I went back to the z55.
Here are the results (as I say, it has apparently been known to work with this
driver):
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query in Konsole:
Lenny:/home/dorothy/Downloads/z600# dpkg -l | grep z55
ii lexmarkz55-cups 1.0-2
CUPS printer driver for Lexmark Z55 printers.
ii z55llpddk 2.0-3
A printer driver development kit for Lexmark Z55 printers.
Lenny:/home/dorothy/Downloads/z600#
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Entry in CUPS:
Description:
Location:
Printer Driver: Lexmark Z55 v1.0-1
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
Device URI: usb://Dell%20/Photo%20AIO%20922
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Entry in jobs recording attempts to print (nothing came out):
ID
Name
User
Size
Pages
State
Control
tmpprinter_PVVlwHct-7 Test Page root 17k Unknown completed at
Fri Nov 20 12:56:16 2009
tmpprinter_PVVlwHct-6 Untitled1 dorothy 32k Unknown completed at
Fri Nov 20 12:01:44 2009
tmpprinter_PVVlwHct-5 Test Page root 17k Unknown completed at
Fri Nov 20 12:27:21 2009
tmpprinter_PVVlwHct-4 Test Page anonymous 17k Unknown completed
at
Fri Nov 20 12:15:36 2009
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Having me crawling around on her floor for most of the week has got her a bit
jittery. If she has another night to lie awake and worry that she is too old
to try something new, I shall have to spend the weekend wiping a nicely
functioning Lenny system and installing Windows. (N.B, because of the
internet problem, her box is currently here at my house, so she can't play
Aisle Riot and reassure herself.)
So please, any helpful suggestions? Bin the doorstop is, I'm afraid, a
non-starter. I've tried suggesting it!!
TIA for all suggestions
Lisi
