Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:31:27 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: more on FreeBSD and Brother HL-5250-DN Message-ID: <20080320173124.GA2611@thought.org>
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Not to bore anyone, but my finding may be of interest. Predrag pointed me at a Brother lpr/printcap setup for Linux-- will wonders never cease?, :-). The URL is http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html and had configurations (binaries, not plaintext) for Redhat andDebian. I managed to install, and thus unpack, the *deb (is that cpio?) on my Ubuntu desktop. Very late last night it occurred to me that the reason no /dev/lpt0 was that my parallel cable isn't plugged into my new printer. The test pages work via the cat5 <-> switch; this HTML helped me configure the 5250. When I another geek over here to plug things together, I'll be able to test the /etc/printcap. Here it is, as auto-installed by dpkg -i:: HL5250DN:\ :mx=0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/HL5250DN:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/usb/lp0:\ :if=/usr/local/Brother/lpd/filterHL5250DN: Most of this will port to FreeBSD easily. The Brother directory is full of two subdirs each with a number of files. The input filter, "filterHL5250DN" and other /bin/sh scripts in lpd/ will take some porting. Soooooooo: is printcap the best way to go? What about IPP? The nutshell is that I'd like to use the printer in the way that takes the least messing-with. I have two "desktop", BSD and Ubuntu. I would like to make the FreeBSD computer my printserver ... if I can't use the 5250 as a networked printer. Advice please!! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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