what printer model? if its networked as been said you have to temp allow network access. Maybe you dont' realize your fedora template is being allowed network acess for some reason but the debian one is not? double check the firewall settings for each.
what printer model? if its networked as been said you have to temp allow network access. Maybe you dont' realize your fedora template is being allowed network acess for some reason but the debian one is not? double check the firewall settings for each.
The UI he is describing is system-config-printer (Red Hat). He could try
gnome-control-center ->Printers instead. That works for me.
Chris
On 06/01/2016 10:29 PM, Drew White wrote:
>
> The UI he is describing is system-config-printer (Red Hat). He
> could try
> gnome-control-center ->Printers instead. That works for me.
>
> Chris
>
>
> Chris, that is essentially what I did. But not through the
> control center, just directly through the menu system and
> running that exact section.
The gnome utility is not the same as the system-config-printer utility
(written by Red Hat). The former works fine for me in debian. BTW, I
setup my debian template using 'tasksel' and chose both debian desktop
and gnome.
>
> I did the same thing in Fedora (RedHat) and it worked fine.
>
> After it detected the printer, it searched for the drivers, didn't
> find them, so I put the OpenDriver file on and installed it.
> RedHat based, easy. Debian based, crashed.
I have been manually choosing from the built-in drivers. For many
printers, you can use a driver with a model number that's close if
there's no exact match.
>
> Currently on Debian 8. I don't know if it's a bug in Debian 8
> or not though.
Either in debian or the driver.