Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 10:12:47 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cups, and hplip too, fail to recognize printer when I try to print Message-ID: <9329.71691.bm@smtp113.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <263570.73680.bm@smtp114.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <4321846.9hHPBs9sCR@desk8.phess.net>
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Thomas Mueller wrote: > I have printer, HP_LaserJet_Professional_M1212nf_MFP, seem to have set > it up with cups [...] > > lpr: lp: unknown printer Patrick Hess responded: > Be aware that after installing CUPS you will find two incompatible lpr > binaries on your system: /usr/bin/lpr, which belongs to the base system, > and /usr/local/bin/lpr, the one that comes with CUPS. Unless you changed > your $PATH to include /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin, you are still > calling /usr/bin/lpr (use "which lpr" to confirm this). The same goes > for /usr/bin/lp vs. /usr/local/bin/lp. > So just try using the full path for /usr/local/bin/lpr and see if that > does the trick. > Patrick I tried that, got some more sign of life, but still no joy: But it still seems that /usr/local/sbin and /usr/local/bin in FreeBSD, or /usr/pkg/sbin and /usr/pkg/bin in NetBSD, should properly be at the front of the path, unless one wants to put $HOME/bin or the like in front of that. I get Idle: Filter failed on http://localhost:631 status page. It looks like cups and the printer are finding every silly excuse for refusing to work. I can't really say if Linux would work better. Only other way is seeing if the Windows way works in wine. Tom
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