From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 18 21:43:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D5F1065672 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:43:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glimp@live.com) Received: from blu0-omc4-s34.blu0.hotmail.com (blu0-omc4-s34.blu0.hotmail.com [65.55.111.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F358FC0C for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:43:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLU0-SMTP7 ([65.55.111.137]) by blu0-omc4-s34.blu0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:30:20 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [151.49.252.243] X-Originating-Email: [glimp@live.com] Message-ID: Received: from genki.collidiamo.net ([151.49.252.243]) by BLU0-SMTP7.blu0.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:30:19 -0700 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:27:13 +0200 From: dan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100910 Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Sep 2010 21:30:19.0938 (UTC) FILETIME=[B1B60820:01CB5778] 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: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:43:41 -0000 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 > > 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