From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 19 18:15:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C09D106566B for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:15:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED388FC15 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwg5 with SMTP id 5so3381644qwg.13 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:15:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.34.212 with SMTP id m20mr4961171qad.397.1284918478904; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.98.199 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:47:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [93.203.30.183] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:47:58 +0200 Message-ID: From: "C. P. Ghost" To: Chabane HEMDANI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:15:33 -0000 On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Chabane HEMDANI 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 > > 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/