CUPS 1.6 shaking up Linux printing

Posted Mar 8, 2012 11:30 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
Parent article: CUPS 1.6 shaking up Linux printing

I'm apprehensive about the hard dependency on avahi for printer discovery given that it doesn't work properly on VirtualBox virtual machines, nor on systems using the incredibly popular RTL-8169 network interface. It's going to make my life a bit more painful than it needs to be in the future.

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CUPS 1.6 shaking up Linux printing

Posted Mar 8, 2012 15:53 UTC (Thu) by gioele (subscriber, #61675) [Link] (1 responses)

> systems using the incredibly popular RTL-8169 network interface.

It looks like that was a bug in the rtl driver and has been closed in 2010: <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407217#223>, <https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux...>.

CUPS 1.6 shaking up Linux printing

Posted Mar 8, 2012 16:16 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

Unfortunately I've not had any luck, even with Linux 3.2. It's been on my 'to debug' list for ages. I'll just have to bump it up once I have to start using CUPS 1.6.