Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:27:13 +0200 From: dan <glimp@live.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP7A4725D1203FFE302ED8CDC7C0@phx.gbl> 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 17.09.2010 02:45, Chabane HEMDANI wrote: > 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 > <http://diablotins.org/index.php/Imprimer,_hplip%20>; > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > :-) Definitely, I am feeling very "lucky". We have 2 multi-functional devices here. 1 - Samsung SCX-4100 . Once I installed SPLIX and the CUPS "system", I manually added the device to CUPS (using SCX-4200 ppd file) and print 2-3 test pages. For the moment I have not tried scanning. (p.s. for printing, I tried first using lpd and the foomatic filter but the filtering process unexpectedly broke: probably a misconfiguration with foomatic or a bug in it). 2 - HP Photosmart C3180. Once I installed HPLIP and adjusted some permissions I used a hp sw tool to update the CUPS printers' database (all with the __default__ 8.1 kernel). I then Succesfully printed a test page and successfully tested the device as a scanner (blank scanning of the plate). The "annoying" and computer-time-consuming part was recompiling gtk and qt with CUPS support, that was not the default when I first installed everything. In the end, CUPS was also easy to use to share the 1st printer in our small and simple network. To close, a sincere thank you to all the people directly/indirectly involved in all the branches (mailing lists too :-) ) of this project. daniele
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