From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 16 08:22:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A411106564A for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:22:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4729F8FC13 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:22:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDSK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id m2G8M3Ec085415; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:22:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Chuck Robey" , "Predrag Punosevac" Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:23:15 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1914 In-Reply-To: <47D96335.9050500@chuckr.org> Importance: Normal X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org, Gligor Lucian Subject: RE: USB printer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:22:09 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Chuck Robey > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:24 AM > To: Predrag Punosevac > Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org; Gligor Lucian > Subject: Re: USB printer > > > Cups on FreeBSD is still woefully underdocumented, relying 100% on others > sites, when the cups installation has been changed (somewhat) to > agree with > hier(7). I agree that needed to be done, and would have been complaining > if it hadn't, but then there should have been some small notes detailing > how to install a local driver. The problem here is that CUPS is really mostly useful if your using Gnome for your desktop, because there's a lot of GUI configuration software that is written for that desktop that makes CUPS configuration a snap. (and installing foomatic drivers and the like) If your not a right-clicker or an i-book flipper than it's understandable you would wonder why there's so much attention paid to CUPS for FreeBSD since it does nothing for the usual command line junkie. Ted