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September 02, 2005
Paper's a drag
Well, I found an appropriate USB cable at Super U in Pontcharra this evening after work. They seemed to be out of stock. The guy at the counter thought so. But some of their stock was on another shelf next to the printers and scanners.
We bought a Samsung ML-1610, and it was delivered yesterday, but as I wrote, I was waiting for the cable to set it up. The cable and printer work fine.
The drag was that Samsung folks had their driver installation work through a graphical tool that requires you provide the root password. Of course, Ubuntu uses sudo and never shows the root password to you. I think Eric told me OS X does that as well.
So I had to work out the driver thing manually. I didn't manage to do it through the gnome-cups-manager wizard. Ended up selecting the ML-1710 driver and going with that. It works, and I have this sinking feeling that to do better I'm going to have to read a book of man pages.
Posted by Mark at September 2, 2005 08:38 PM