I've been using F96-CE 4 (with later kernel and additional drivers) on the laptop in signature below for quite awhile as my daily driver. But there's been one nagging problem I've never solved, printing. I've been dealing with that problem by saving files to a thumbdrive, then starting up my old Bionic notebook, and printing from that off of the thumbdrive. This is a pain, and sometimes I don't have time, when I need something fast.
I'd really like to get printing going on this new laptop running F96-CE 4. Here's what I've tried:
On this same new laptop I've booted into Bionicpup64, and Fossapup 64 9.5, and both of those DO print on this same computer. Both have updated drivers to work with the recent wifi card.
I do not think these are causing the problem, and they are essential to printing on the network. Note that these driver updates DO print properly when added to Bionic64 and Fossa64 on this same computer. It is only F96-CE that throws the "Filter Failed" message in CUPS.
Specifics:
printer is normally set up in CUPS as:
Name: Dell
Description: Laser Printer
Location: Cheryl's Office
Driver: Xerox Phaser 6000B v1.0 (color)
Connection: socket://10.0.0.15:9100
Distros tested:
F96-CE 4, Fossapup64 9.5, Bionicpup64, each set up as follows:
1.) I created a fresh instance and created a new save folder for each.
2.) I loaded linux_firmware_20240201.sfs, and I added iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-71.ucode to /lib/firmware (both were needed to get wifi working for the recent Intel ax211 wifi card).
3.) I loaded a 32bit-compatibilty sfs in each, and installed the xerox-phaser-6000-6010_1.0-1_i386.deb to provide the printer driver for my specific printer.
4.) I entered the network socket connection details (see above) and chose the printer driver in CUPS to create a new printer.
5.) Printing a test page from Maintenance in CUPS failed with "Filter Failed" message in F96-CE 4.
6.) Printing a test page was successful from both Bionicpup64 and Fossapup64.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.