From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jul 26 14:19:53 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E13A9AB6E0 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2015 14:19:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Received: from feeder.usenet4all.se (1-1-1-38a.far.sth.bostream.se [82.182.32.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 95C94233 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2015 14:19:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Received: from testbox.news4all.se (testbox.usenet4all.se [10.0.0.3]) by feeder.usenet4all.se (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id t6QEJmVp001703 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2015 16:19:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Message-ID: <55B4EC8F.6090200@bananmonarki.se> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 16:19:59 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ulpt problems. References: <55B0BE81.70208@bananmonarki.se> <884706.24465.bm@smtp116.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <55B1A2D3.9040707@bananmonarki.se> <55B217F6.1000603@bananmonarki.se> <55B3BC68.2020705@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55B3BC68.2020705@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 14:19:53 -0000 On 2015-07-25 18:42, Ramiro Caso wrote: > Here's how far I got (I have a working printer without ulpt and with > cups). > > On 24/07/2015 07:48, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> On 2015-07-24 05:37, Warren Block wrote: >>> On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Bernt Hansson wrote: >>> >>>> It seems that one needs ulpt, otherwise the printer isn't found. >>>> So I added to /boot/loader.conf ulpt_load="YES" then the printer is >>>> found by cups and hplip. >>>> > > In order to use a printer with cups and ugen instead of ulpt, you have > to put some rules in devfs.rules, something like: > > add path 'usb*' mode 0770 group cups > add path 'ugen*' mode 0660 group cups > add path 'usb/4.3.*' mode 0660 group cups > > Where 4.3 is where the printer appears (just running usbconfig tells > you where that is). Maybe the rules are redundant, I don't recall > anymore, but again it worked for me. These rules give cups access to > the printer device. > I've done that, nothing happens. >>>> But I do not want to use cups so I deinstalled it. Cups can't print >>>> a testpage so I resorted to lpd. >>>> Which can't print anything, so back to cups that too can't print >>>> anything. So I'm stuck. >>> >>> The ulpt module is loaded by /etc/devd/usb.conf. The file says >>> "please do not edit", and I don't know how those modules are disabled. >>> > > You have to create a configuration file for devd under /usr/local/etc. > What I did is to copy the entries in usb.conf that load the ulpt > module into this new file, change the priority to something higher > than 32, and change the action from "kldload -n ulpt" to a trivial > action, "true". I think there is a better, non hackish thing to do, > but it worked for me. Done that too. Nothing. > >>>> Printer is HP laserjet P2055d >>> >>> That printer supports PostScript directly, so following the LPD >>> setup in the Handbook is the easiest course. Deinstall CUPS first, >>> because it has not-quite-compatible commands with the same names as >>> the real ones. >>> >>> If the printer has a network interface, that is the preferred >>> connection. But USB will work, too. >>> >>> >> Now that it finds the printer it's not printing anything with cups or >> lpd. >> I'm using apsfilter and lpd. Hplip is deinstalled so is cups. But no >> cigar. >