Moving printer configuration from KDE 3 to KDE 4.

[Dotan Cohen]

> It could *be* a solution.  Despite your bias, it may be that the router has
> always been "broken" and your previous desktop software was, by chance and
> luck, working anyway.  It such a situation, an upgrade might "break" things
> because of timing issues, not code changes, and the proper solution is to
> fix the router.
>
> I'm not saying that's what is happening here.  In fact, I doubt that is the
> case.  However, just because the combination of Xv1 and Y works and Xv2 and
> Y doesn't work does not imply that Xv2 is broken.
>

I know, just look at HTML 4.1 and IE 6 vs. IE 7. IE 7 became
[relatively] standards compliant, and that broke a lot of websites.

But in this case neither KDE 3 nor KDE 4 are broken, rather the
functionality for network printing seems to have not yet been written.

> What I think is happening here is that KDE 4 dropped a lot of KDE 3's
> printing infrastructure.  IME, KDE 4 *seems* to depend on a working, local
> CUPS setup.  In one of your other messsages you said:
>

I do have a local, working CUPS. However, due to the router's stupid
design of using an EXE file to configure Windows instead of giving the
user the configuration details, I do not know the correct IP address
format to use, nor the protocol to use. KDE 3.5.10 did manage to scan
and find this info, therefore I was hopeful that I could go through
the old config files and extract this info.

>>In KDE 3.5.0 I could enter the IP address of the router as the address
>>of the print server and the printer worked fine. Not so in KDE 4.2.2.
>
> (Are you sure it was 3.5.0; I bet it was actually 3.5.6 or above.)
>

It was KDE 3.5.10, I left out the 1 character.

> You should be able to configure a print queue on your local cupsd to print
> to a remote lpd or cupsd print queue.  Most likely, there is an lpd or cupsd
> running on your router.  You should be able to browse to
> http://localhost:631 to set this up.  When it asks for the printer / server
> IP, you can use the IP of the router.

The IP of the router must be in one of the following formats:
http://192.168.0.1:631/ipp/
http://192.168.0.1:631/ipp/port1
ipp://192.168.0.1/ipp/
ipp://192.168.0.1/ipp/port1
lpd://192.168.0.1/queue
socket://192.168.0.1
socket://192.168.0.1:9100

Additionally, I have these protocols to choose from:
AppSocket/HP JetDirect
Backend Error Handler
Hal printing backend
HP Fax (HPLIP)
HP Printer (HPLIP)
Internet Printing Protocol (http)
Internet Printing Protocol (ipp)
LPD/LPR Host or Printer
SCSI Printer
Windows Printer via SAMBA

You mention LPD so I will now try that protocol with all the possible
IP address configurations.

I should note that I already received a letter from D-Link trying to
assist, so I sent to them the list of addresses and protocols as well
to ask. I also made note that I am surprised that this information is
not in the literature provided with the router. I await their second
response.

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Dotan Cohen

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