From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 24 11: 6:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from freedom.cybertouch.org (freedom.cybertouch.org [216.126.88.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF18637BD1C for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 11:06:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lnb@freedom.cybertouch.org) Received: from localhost (lnb@localhost) by freedom.cybertouch.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA97091; Wed, 24 May 2000 14:05:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:05:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Lanny Baron To: peter@collison.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing to networked HP laserwriter In-Reply-To: <20000524173824.16769.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: City: Thornhill Province: Ontario Country: Canada Telephone: (905) 763-1900 Fax: (905) 763-0241 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Did you try to install apsfilter? /usr/ports/print/apsfilter Give that a try. Regards, Lanny On Wed, 24 May 2000, Yogi Kudu wrote: > > >Could someone help? I would really like to use freeBSD but need to make >sure I can get some basic services before I invest much more time in it. > >I need to print to a network laser printer (HP Laserwriter 2100TN) which has >a JetDirect 600N card and I believe I have set up the /etc/printcap file >correctly however when I attempt to send a job to the printer I get an >"unknown printer" error. > >I have tried restarting the lpd daemon to make sure it's reading the >printcap file. Same error. > >I don't believe this is a kernel issue. > >Thank you in advance, > >Swami >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message