Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:56:43 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS Message-ID: <20120225225643.32e0cd21.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAJ5UdcMVb-AxpLRnQtEsTAaaBauKP0oQGCBZk%2B1V=RBPg-6EaQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20120225221433.cba3d0dd.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAJ5UdcMVb-AxpLRnQtEsTAaaBauKP0oQGCBZk%2B1V=RBPg-6EaQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:26:29 -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Hope this can help: > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=27666 > > There are many things that could be interfering? Done as explained in the thread. Even # cp /usr/local/share/examples/cups/ulpt-cupsd.conf /usr/local/etc/devd has been done. > - Create /etc/devfs.rules with the following, which sets the > permissions and associates print devices with the cups group: > > [system=10] > add path 'unlpt*' mode 0660 group cups > add path 'ulpt*' mode 0660 group cups > add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups Checked and already present. I think I should not have to fiddle with the ugen* devices? Note: The scanner is currently not interesting to me, but sane-find-scanners reports it: found USB scanner (vendor=0x04e8 [Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.], product=0x3425 [CLX-216x Series]) at libusb:/dev/usb:/dev/ugen4.2 The printer should be on a similar address, but it does already pop up as ulpt device which should be good. :-) An additional ulpt0: output error message appear in the system log after the device is recognized (plugged in). I also made a comparable set of settings in /etc/devfs.conf if the printer is detected at boot time. own ulpt0 root:cups perm ulpt0 0666 own unlpt0 root:cups perm unlpt0 0666 That should be fine. > - Add root and other users to cups group in /etc/group Done. > - Enable CUPS and the above rules at startup by adding these lines to > /etc/rc.conf: > > cupsd_enable="YES" > devfs_system_ruleset="system" Also already done. I'm already running CUPS to address the HP Laerjet 4000d via LAN (what a waste, I know). > Then hopefully the printer shows up in cups http://localhost:631 :) No auto-detection, no local printers to be configured. :-( > If none of this works, you may try adding the apsfilter port and use > it to configure the printer? But see if the above helps. I've been using apsfilter in the past happily as it could even to things like % lpr sometext.txt but CUPS truncates the output as soon as an Umlaut or Eszett appears. Great multilingual tool. :-) As I said, I "have" (note the quotes) to use CUPS because many programs say so. For example, Opera doesn't play with system's lpr anymore, Gimp has hardcoded stuff in it, and I believe many programs will follow this road... Anyway, I will surely dump CUPS as it doesn't work for me. Brings no benefit, even the simplest things (adding a printer by specifying port and type) is _impossible_). I'll begin to write a lpr printer filter instead. That has been proven to work (see initial message). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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