CUPS printing problem in fedora core 5

minofifa

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May 19, 2004
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Hi
I am tryhing to add a printer to fedora core 5 (mythDora). I am normally a ubuntu user and so i've never seen this problem before. Here is the gist of the error message:

Cannot retrieve the printer list (error from the manager)
Connetion to the CUPS server failed
The IPP request failed for an unknown reason

I have tried everything i can think of:
- using yum / yumex to install all CUPS related software
- downloading the CUPS source and using ./configure make install, and gettind the ppd file from linuxprinters.org

but nothing works. can anybody please advise? how does one add a printer in fedora core? thank you for any help.