Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 00:05:34 -0500 From: David Uhring <duhring@charter.net> To: "Justin W. Pauler" <jwpauler@jwpages.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Message-ID: <00072200101801.00223@dave.uhring.com> In-Reply-To: <00072123420801.00237@pauler.lgtch02.fais.net> References: <00072123420801.00237@pauler.lgtch02.fais.net>
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On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Justin W. Pauler wrote: > Just CVSup'd last night, July 20th, after a complete re-install from my > 4.0-RELEASE CD's. I then CVSup'd and built/installed the world and proceded to > make me up a new kernel. Much to my surprise after I compiled everything, my > system, as it has done many times before, would not compile the kernel with > -ANY- USB devices what-so-ever. All that is in my kernel relating to USB is > the following four lines: > > device uhci # UHCI controller > device ohci # OHCI controller > device usb # Generic USB code > device ugen # Generic USB device driver > > Now if I attempt to compile this kernel with the code in, I get the following > error when attempting to link the kernel: > > linking kernel > usb_ethersubr.o: In function `usbintr': > usb_ethersubr.o(.text+0x31): undefined reference to `ether_input' > *** Error code 1 > Stop in /usr/src/sys/compile/PAULER. > > Therefore I am not able to compile any support for USB in my kernel at > all. I have found this problem for awhile now and have not been able to > correct it, even after a complete brand new CVS'up and reinstall. This is > frustrating as I have several devices I would like to run on my system: > > Dell XPS Pentium II 233 w/MMX > 96 MB RAM > FreeBSD pauler.lgtch02.fais.net 4.1-RC FreeBSD 4.1-RC #0: > Fri Jul 21 12:52:05 CDT 2000 > > Also, has anyone gotten a HP Deskjet Printer to -successfully- work in > FreeBSD and X? I just received an HP Deskjet 610c, and after reading the > handbook and other guides off the internet, installing ifhp, ghostscript and a > mass of other utilities and filters, I can print from the console (plain text) > fine. However, when I print from say netscape in X, I just get a bunch of > postscript junk that my printer either can convert or doesn't understand. I > know it is not a problem with the printer, as it works fine in Windows => > > Justin W. Pauler > You need to make /usr/ports/print/apsfilter. And it's a big make to do the whole thing. Fundamentally, you need the ghostscript interpreter for postscript. apsfilter converts various types of output files to postscript and then uses ghostscript to convert the ps to the PCL your printer needs. Netscape produces postscript (.ps) files when you print a web page. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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