From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 13 03:00:48 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 056151065670 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:00:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmarella@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6D68FC1F for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:00:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmarella@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so3663080wxd.7 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:00:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=egZqpY0LlsG9UVcYeevLM7V+XOfr6LfnkIs5SX/hrOE=; b=N+e5hxjj+2G3c7hUKx+yRiGR/17uCg2cBx02+su+nOy/Y93BNTYI2SEf5Wixaj8AqeK4UEDKquIuWb3s2pvk2hFOUua2yPJzmEPdl/GeHLW4pcGNKpWHW1LDR99x8hQUQ4ixYL+jzOxLVt1XOAtU2JvXW6o7bUC8CL6JH7c1K2Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=M9RZXwfY8LwVw+9wbQd/Eq9a6hTNuaKMYq9K2hYCvhTmxzVYIwOZ1DFeReBTk9XVAqlRzj/JERfdY2QeI8R0BhD+H4PIFGdq/hRhLA/mqeWv0aoUyjg2gAKmUIy7uY+AtqPrX/jf9uR+8JZRS827hj7aj53+EWZDmat8UxBon5A= Received: by 10.100.247.14 with SMTP id u14mr18130562anh.59.1205377246565; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:00:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 2590.Belkin ( [66.75.122.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm19185610agb.13.2008.03.12.20.00.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:00:35 -1000 From: Robert Marella To: Chuck Robey Message-ID: <20080312170035.32b56e67@2590.Belkin> In-Reply-To: <47D82B8C.1060402@chuckr.org> References: <212181.35000.qm@web43142.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <47D82B8C.1060402@chuckr.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.8; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org 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: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:00:48 -0000 On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:14:20 -0400 Chuck Robey wrote: > 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. > FWIW I had cups working (2 USB and 1 parellel) forever on three separate FreeBSD systems until last fall sometime. It had stopped working on each of them after an upgrade that I have long since forgot. After going through all of the removals and reinstalls, I compared what was installed on these systems with a Linux box that cups worked on. I found that I needed the /print/foomatic-db and /print/foomatic-de-engine ports. After I installed these two ports cups is working fine on my FreeBSD systems. HTH Robert