From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 01:02:07 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 E9BF11065672 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:02:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hemdani2009@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f196.google.com (mail-iw0-f196.google.com [209.85.214.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B40688FC16 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:02:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn7 with SMTP id 7so255715iwn.7 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:02:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=0dNVBXaDsJlbDakR/9U7eRhAHS73VGj0CU902AXy4DY=; b=nTuWaW8kL04hGD716EQba7+4fN0R/S0Reea9ncWrBaR23Va4hmENZs378sDkNpQ04t IXmC1+JoYZEu5wcNGsHTizqPMLr3IlBpxQFoHFXcgaQKljMeq84vnPBj/Y37DqABpv4O JtxBRD2ceiLpWCAPSh+/m5G93CRkgCwEi3tK4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=UNfF6F2I9rn/JAhplbAlnHwGRbxXon9s1ORC38EyEkBlXAmDcvj+rLVmfaCfA3jOIG 6vpFznFVgWNgb9GHSakesw5rzTuZXT5Bea/mgFjGca+obU2KYEEVNrvWZ0EVIB5uYzHk Ey/XORKOca0L9F8mSS/LIYJZgAhgsfqQ8JtY8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.174.84 with SMTP id s20mr4331329ibz.94.1284684354818; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.182.4 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:45:54 +0100 Message-ID: From: Chabane HEMDANI To: questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:06:02 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: 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: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:02:07 -0000 I'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. Since that date, I always invited and recommended to my students to install 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 without any success. I've an HP Laser Jet 1018 printer and tools given by package print/hplip don't work correctly. I'm using FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE I've rebuild a kernel without ulpt. I modified my /etc/rc.conf to enable cupsd and hpiod and hpssd. 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 answer that "no one can print under FreeBSD !" Please where is the problem? Please help me to help others. Please help me to enlarge the FreeBSD users community.