From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 01:19:31 2005 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 3410B16A4DF for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:19:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpauth03.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth03.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3EDB43D1D for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:19:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=[192.168.63.10]) by smtpauth03.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.34) id 1CpG7e-00032R-Jb; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:19:30 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:19:50 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20050114010424.89502.qmail@web61008.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050114010424.89502.qmail@web61008.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501131919.50335.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bcf4e79d987f6d12be1935adcd213f3c9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 cc: "E. J. Cerejo" Subject: Re: Setting up USB Printer??? 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: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:19:31 -0000 On Thursday 13 January 2005 07:04 pm, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 and I have a USB HP printer (Deskjet 842C) > and I can't find any tutorials and the hand book is not much help > either unless I'm missing something on how to setup any USB printer > under FreeBSD. Can anyone help me with this? > The first step is to see if your system recognizes the usb printer. If you review the output of dmesg, you should find the printer associated with a ulpt device. If it's associated with a ugen device, then the system doesn't recognize it. If the printer is recognized, the next step is to configure it. The easiest ways include installing a printer program such as cups or apsfilter. You can find these apps in the ports; and you can find lots of documentation via google. Information regarding your specific printer can be found at: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_842C If your printer is not identified correctly when connected via usb, you can purchase an external print server with usb ports and use apsfilter or cups to configure the printer over the internet. Good luck, Andrew Gould