Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 18:08:07 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, vcardona@home.com Subject: Re: Brother HL-1240 laser printer Message-ID: <15084.40663.696703.650203@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <121479404@toto.iv>
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Victor R. Cardona <vcardona@home.com> types: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:35:22AM -0500, Dave Leimbach wrote: > > I have been trying to get my Brother HL-1240 laser printer working in > > FreeBSD. > <Snipped> > > I have tried APSFILTER and the docs I see on the web say to use the > > laserjet ghostscript driver. This is USB printer and when I try to print > > the testpage my machine resets itself. > > > > This is clearly bad behavior. > > > > I have downloaded ghostscript 7.0 and am going to try it a little later > > today. > > > > Can anyone help me? I'd hate to have to build a small linux machine as my > > printserver.... > > I have a parrellel port version of that printer. I use apsfilter to get > it to work. I use the ljet2p driver. Unfortunately, I am not sure how > you would go about getting a usb printer to work. First, make sure that ulpt0 shows up in your dmesg. If it doesn't, you need to add uhci or ohci - you can take out the one that doesn't show up - usb and ulpt to your config. Then do "./MAKEDEV ulpt0" in /dev to make the device. Then set it up like a normal printer, using /dev/ulpt0 instead of /dev/lpt0. Oh yeah - make sure USB is enabled in your BIOS. While you're there, check for IRQ conflicts. Some devices share IRQs, some don't. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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