From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 08:42:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE3316A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658A743D31 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:42:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:43:37 -0500 Message-ID: <407EAD79.30506@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:42:49 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040406 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net References: <20040415172122.58e135c9.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> In-Reply-To: <20040415172122.58e135c9.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Apr 2004 15:43:38.0328 (UTC) FILETIME=[6B78FD80:01C42300] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:42:53 -0000 Robert Storey wrote: >Dear all, > >Having looked at the mind-boggling amount of configuration information >that is in the Handbook, I decided to just install CUPS. I'm very familiar >with CUPS, having configured it many times in Linux. > >So I installed the CUPS daemon, and started it by going to >/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and renaming the sample file to cups.sh. I even did a >"./cups.sh start" and that worked - that is, my printer reacted by moving >the print head, and I could fire up Mozilla and type >"http://localhost:631" and then reach the CUPS configuration page. My >printer is an Epson 24-pin dot-matrix onf /dev/lpt0 - there is a driver >for that, so no problem. So that should be enough to make it work - at >least that would do the job under Linux. But attempting to print a test >page gives me nothing. > >The Handbook says almost zilch about CUPS other than suggesting that one >should look at cups.org for advice. Of course, cups.org has little to say >about BSD. > >So I'm wondering what I did wrong? Any help is appreciated. > >best regards, >Robert > > I'm a definite newbie when it comes to printing; but I'll take a shot (hopefully you're taking that first sentence under advisement) in the hopes that keeping the thread alive will get you what you need before too many days pass. Probably these questions are more to satisfy my curiosity than to give help ... but let's go: First, what command are you using to attempt to print the test page? Secondly, what does your entry for the printer look like in /etc/printcap? Anything in your logs? /var/log/messages, perhaps... Lastly, did you restart the daemon? $lpc restart all Like I said; I may be off base here, but maybe there's food for thought; at the very least maybe somebody else can grab the ball and run with it :-) Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.