Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 18:42:13 +0200 From: Ron <iampure@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Henry Miller <hmiller@intradyn.com> Subject: Re: Printing to a USB-printer + making it available to one other Windows machine Message-ID: <87d4647e050520094257a2dc2a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200505201136180296.7045CE54@mail.intradyn.com> References: <87d4647e05052008444f840511@mail.gmail.com> <200505201136180296.7045CE54@mail.intradyn.com>
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> If you can get it working locally it is easy to make it work with CUPS > on the network. CUPS is the easiest way to print on the network. > (though there are good reasons to use others) >=20 > Start simple: get something (either ghostscript or plain text) printing > locally. Until the printer works on freeBSD locally you can never be > sure it isn't a flakely cable or some simple thing that you are > misdiagnosing. >=20 It's not a bad cable since the printer works under Windows and my previous Linux install(via CUPS) > I don't remember the original thread, did you go to > www.linuxprinting.org and follow their instructions? In most cases > that is enough to get your printer working. Yes, I did.=20 >=20 > The hard part is making the printer work. Once it works, it is almost > trivial to add CUPS. I know. If I want to communicate with the printer to get the inklevels etc, the kernel crashes. (I use escputil). It's a bug in the usb drivers.
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