From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 7 12:19:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 95F9416A585 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:19:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rance@frontiernet.net) Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.182.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A286443D46 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:19:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rance@frontiernet.net) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.4.1 at filter03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net Received: from localhost (webmail05.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.182.104]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43E33704A0 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:18:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Received: from 67-137-161-18.bras01.kea.ne.frontiernet.net (67-137-161-18.bras01.kea.ne.frontiernet.net [67.137.161.18]) by webmail.frontiernet.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:19:06 +0000 Message-ID: <20060907121906.71wgo7l4zegws08o@webmail.frontiernet.net> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:19:06 +0000 From: "rance@frontiernet.net" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.5-cvs) Subject: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:19:08 -0000 After cvsupping my ports tree to fix a couple of security problems I decided to install cups for printing. Yea I know it isnt the freebsd default -- thats for another day. Anyway This new version of cups 1.2.2 is really cool, I like the interface and the web admin portal has really undergone lots of work. My problem is that when you add a printer via the web interface the devices pull-down does not show a parallel port even if the system has detected that there is a printer there. (ie dmesg shows the printer discovery) so where is the parallel port? I asked on the cups list, and got nowhere. I googled for it, but didn't get anything helpful here is what I know: An older version of cups on THIS same machine DID find the SAME printer. there is a parallel option in the back-ends directory. I cant find a log entry anywhere that suggests that a parallel port printer is even being searched for and not found, so I can't be for sure where exactly the problem lies. anybody seen this behavior before? or have a clue? Thanks Rance