Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:22:43 -0500 From: Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port Message-ID: <20100226122243.60cd98cd@scorpio.seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <733828.21268.qm@web36507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002260902420.13210@wonkity.com> <733828.21268.qm@web36507.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:01:35 -0800 (PST) Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> articulated: > Thanks for your reply. Your answers are usually spot on but this is > one of those difficult times when the Windows and Linux guys at work > laugh their asses off at me for being such a FreeBSD die-hard. I > thought it might be a faulty cable or even the printer shot it's wad > so I moved it over to a Windows Vista machine and poof, 15 seconds > later it had found it, installed the correct driver and printed two > pages for me. I tried your method below and even though I changed "x" > attribute all I got was the following in the /var/log/lpd-errs file: > Feb 26 11:30:29 FreeBSD1 lpd[1413]: lp: cannot > execv(/usr/local/libexec/ps2pcl): Exec format error Feb 26 11:30:29 > FreeBSD1 lpd[1412]: lp: job could not be printed > (cfA000FreeBSD1.flgmsi.com) > > So I added the standard #!/bin/sh line to the beginning of the ps2pcl > file and nothing printed, not even error messages about what > happened. And that seems to be what's going on here. I also tried the > standard ifhp filter file shown in the handbook and switched the > device from DJ500 to hl1250. This is the gs driver that worked before > with the apsfilter method when the printer was on lpt0: The queue > shows it's empty with no jobs waiting and the log files are void of > any evidence of what happened to the job. The printer sits there as > if nothing happened. I understand these are difficult topics to > overcome with FreeBSD as the docs are not always in synch with the > OS. But just like before when I had trouble getting this laser > printer to work under lpd until I found apsfilter it was difficult. > Once I had that method down it was easy to setup again. It's got to > be something simple here. Thanks again for the advice. If you think > of anything else please pass it on. In the meantime I'm still doing > google and yahoo searches and will try again with the #freebsd > channel. I feel your pain. I have struggles getting printers, especially wireless ones, working with FreeBSD for way too long also. It always seems to be a hit or miss adventure. While MS Windows has several problems, printing is not one of them. Good luck, and please post your solution once you have one. -- Jerry gesbbb@yahoo.com |::::======= |::::======= |=========== |=========== | You cannot use your friends and have them too.
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