[ale] Local printers not supported

[drifter]

Michael,
I have been out of the country, but it looks like so one answered your 
question.  I have fought similar problems on Ubuntu and in every case it was a 
permissions problem.  I would try starting the printer setup program with a 
sudo command.  (Having written that, I must admit I have no idea what the name 
of such a program might be. :)  )  I have spent most of my Linux life under 
the Red Hat and only recently have begun messing around with Ubuntu -- on a 
netbook.

Sean



On Wednesday 05 August 2009 01:05:01 Michael Hirsch wrote:
> I'm trying to help my Dad with a problem.  He's using KDE 3.5.x and
> his USB printer stopped working.  He can see the printer with "lsusb"
> so it would appear that USB works, but when he tries to add the
> printer with the KDE Add Printer Wizard, the choice "Local printer
> (parallel, serial, USB)" is deactivated.  He can't press the radio
> button to enable it.  The other radio buttons are all active except
> for "Serial Fax/Modem printer".
>
> What can deactivate that button.  It happens on both his and my Mom's
> systems, but they are running the same software, so that doesn't
> narrow things down, much.
>
> My machine is running the same software, too, and it is enabled for
> me.  I can't figure out what he could be missing to turn off local
> printer support.
>
> His OS is Ubuntu Jaunty with the semi-official KDE 3.5 installed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
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