Is something broken in the 5.1 BSD Boxed Distribution of CUPS?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:46:14PM -0700, Dr. Lyman Hazelton wrote:
> I have installed CUPS on two separate machines (very different 
> machines, too) from the distribution disks in the Boxed set of 
> FreeBSD release 5.1.  I can connect to the daemon on localhost:631 
> and read the documentation, BUT I can't do anything else.  CUPS won't 
> even allow me to put in a new printer, and responds with an error 
> message page "Entity too large."  The fact that this happens on two 
> different computers in exactly the same way means either that I am 
> doing something wrong in exactly the same way, or that there is 
> something wrong with the distribution.  I have read the documentation 
> very carefully and tried to follow the examples exactly.  No joy.  
> Perhaps you can give me some advice.
> 
> I have a laserjet on an LPT queue on my router, with address 
> 192.168.2.1, with queue name lpt1.  What should I be enterring for 
> the values of the name, location, and description for this device?  
> Alternatively, what would the line be to accomplish the addition of 
> this printer using lpadmin, please?  If I'm doing this right, I'll 
> just build CUPS from the port, but I'd be willing to bet I'm doing 
> something wrong.

Try asking on a CUPS mailing list.

Kris
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