From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 14:18:30 2003 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 F0ED016A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:18:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE0B43FE5 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:18:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net (lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net [207.136.3.72]) (authenticated bits=0)hACMIPXr013743; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:18:26 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:18:24 -0600 From: Larry Rosenman To: David Bein , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <336860000.1068675504@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net> In-Reply-To: <3FB2B072.23E45EED@world.std.com> References: <3FB2B072.23E45EED@world.std.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.0 (Linux/x86) X-PGP-Info: All other keys are old/dead. X-PGP-Key: 0x3c49bdd6 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D0D1 3C11 F42F 6B29 FA67 6BF3 AD13 4685 3C49 BDD6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="==========44CA3E9B3C646C8F7189==========" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Re: HP JetDirect EX printer problems ... 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: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:18:31 -0000 --==========44CA3E9B3C646C8F7189========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 17:13:06 -0500 David Bein=20 wrote: > Hello ... > > I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup > for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, > but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is working because > if I telnet to port 9100 on the Jet Direct and type in some lines > and then quit out of telnet, it prints them. So my problem is not > the hardware or network connectivity. > > I am confused about whether this should be "lp=3D@" > with appropriate filters or some variant of "rm=3D rp=3DTEXT". > None of the software examples I have seen appear to reference port 9100 > and so I am confused as to how it knows what to connect to except > in the @ configuration. Neither of these approaches worked. > > I am wanting to use this with an old LaserJet 4L PCL class printer. > Directly connecting it to a parallel port works just fine [using > apsfilter > and all the other Postscript conversion software]. I just want to have > it work from whichever machine using the network both for reasons of > speed > and not wanting to have a single box up just to print from some other > machine. This is a printcap entry I use for a PostScript enabled LaserJet 5: lj5|lphome: \ :lf=3D/var/log/lj5.err:\ :lp=3D:\ :rm=3Dlj5.lerctr.org:\ :mx#0:\ :rp=3Draw:\ :sd=3D/var/spool/lpd/lj5: Maybe it will help you. LER > > There was software from HP for this box for Solaris and HP-UX, but > I am running FreeBSD and occasionally Solaris/x86, so I have none > of the software from HP to work with. > > Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks very much. > > --David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --=20 Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 --==========44CA3E9B3C646C8F7189========== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/srGxrRNGhTxJvdYRAkriAJ4mnlhlETRzX2vUthMtowMb6MmGBQCfU7ib HOT++bwSIh+sKnXs3h1Tj/g= =+vwL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==========44CA3E9B3C646C8F7189==========--