From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 19:44:12 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 DD8C51065674 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:44:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0FB68FC2D for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:44:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 20385 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2008 19:44:11 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 12 Mar 2008 19:44:11 -0000 Message-ID: <47D83127.8000701@chuckr.org> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:38:15 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manolis Kiagias References: <212181.35000.qm@web43142.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <47D82B8C.1060402@chuckr.org> <47D8310B.2010501@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <47D8310B.2010501@otenet.gr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:44:13 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > > Chuck Robey wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Gligor Lucian wrote: >> >>> David Kelly wrote: >On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at >>> 12:59:38PM -0700, Gligor Lucian >wrote: >>> >>>>> Does FreeBSD support a USB printer? >>>>> >>>> Yes. >>>> >> >> You know, while there are printing utils that actually work on FreeBSD, I >> can't personally recommend CUPS. I keep on trying to get it to work on >> FreeBSD efvery year or so, then I need to go over to one of my other >> systems. Last one I tried was an Epson Stylus C84, but I've also >> tried HP >> officejets, and I just can't get locally attached printers to work with >> cups. I can get them to work with things like apsfilter very well, but >> either someone is going to have to fix the Cups port (it builds, but >> nothing locally runs) or stop recommending it. >> >> Or, does anyone else have it working on FreeBSD? Sure would like to hear >> about it, but I've been trying for a long time now, with no success. >> >> >>> Thank you very much for your answer. >>> All the best, Gligor Lucian. >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------- >>> Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! >>> Search. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> > I have cups working on my system, printing on locally attached USB > printers. > I have followed the instructions in dekstopBSD wiki: > > http://desktopbsd.net/wiki/doku.php?id=doc:printing > > (though I used ports and not packages) > > I still have some issues if I disconnect / reconnect the printer, the > permissions are not set correctly (although devfs is running). > I might be missing some configuration step, but have not researched > further yet. > Generally speaking, printing works. > OK, well, maybe I'm wrong, I'll go take a look. As to that other respondent, the job of doing non-local printers needs much more trivial drivers, so yeah, that always has worked. I had looked about on Google, followed a ton of differing instructions, and hadn't had it come near working yet. But, I will go take another look at this URL, yes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH2DEnz62J6PPcoOkRAikGAJ9F/coCFoW64xeWaa8/hA5orR9dTwCaAryV tWWpQg+S3Xwka5bgtSRcfnU= =LxxN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----