Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:47:58 +0200 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Chabane HEMDANI <hemdani2009@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer Message-ID: <AANLkTin7o1fwHJEVmo7S4b5i4E58uHaoiD-cZu8JcB_r@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim89g-u-S4D0q-a_BgiG7Oy57dB-BDznN74g29A@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTim89g-u-S4D0q-a_BgiG7Oy57dB-BDznN74g29A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Chabane HEMDANI <hemdani2009@gmail.com> wr= ote: > =A0I'm computer science teacher at university of Tizi-ouzou in Algeria. I= 'm > using FreeBSD since 2007 when I "discover" it by chance when searching in > the Web something about Linux. > =A0Since that date, I always invited and recommended to my students to in= stall > and use this "magical" and my favorite system. > > However, all my students retort me that they have a problem of installing > their printers. I have so this problem, so I can't tell good-bye > definitively to winosor and Linux. I always need them for printing. > > I've search, read, learn, follow instructions about nearly all the > web-documentation about installing a new printer to work under cups witho= ut > any success. I've =A0an HP Laser Jet 1018 printer and tools given by pack= age > print/hplip don't work correctly. > > I'm using FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE > I've rebuild a kernel without =A0ulpt. > I modified my /etc/rc.conf to enable cupsd and hpiod and =A0hpssd. > I modified /etc/devfs.rules like suggested by cups (see pkg_info -D > cups-base-1.4.4 ). > I've made many other configurations like that suggested at > http://diablotins.org/index.php/Imprimer,_hplip > <http://diablotins.org/index.php/Imprimer,_hplip%20>; > and finally, I've given to my students the wrong =A0answer that "no one c= an > print under FreeBSD !" Sometimes, permissions can be the problem: http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2010/02/02/printing-woes-on-freebsd-8-with-cup= s/ > Please where is the problem? > Please help me to help others. > Please help me to enlarge the FreeBSD users community. Regards, -cpghost. --=20 Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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