From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 25 15:43:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91F216A432 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:43:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA83D43D60 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:43:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from [213.146.114.24] (helo=reverse-213-146-114-24.cust.kamp-dsl.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML21M-1FYPg41rBs-0003kd; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:42:13 +0200 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:15:02 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" X-X-Sender: root@www.pukruppa.net To: Malcolm Fitzgerald In-Reply-To: <1209639b8bc7faaeb76ebf0932051131@notyourhomework.net> Message-ID: <20060425191942.P1100@www.pukruppa.net> References: <658be17fbe25500c985c5b8fc35ffc95@notyourhomework.net> <20060423091441.M1100@www.pukruppa.net> <499dd1ce422438ea0c0ac99b1f41ce8b@notyourhomework.net> <20060423133640.D1100@www.pukruppa.net> <20060423140319.S1100@www.pukruppa.net> <1209639b8bc7faaeb76ebf0932051131@notyourhomework.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:2446dbdf8275641f979193ced594c629 Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: Help needed compiling printer source code 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: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:43:30 -0000 On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: >>>>>> I'm trying to install a Brother HL-1230 printer. > >>> >>> Did you also have a look at >>> http://linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=hl1250&fromprinter=Brother-HL-1230 >>> ? >> I think you might be lucky: they have got a .ppd file there for you >> (Brother-HL-1230-hl1250.ppd ). Download it, put it into >> /usr/local/share/cups/model/ >> restart cups by >> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd restart >> and try setup on http://localhost:631 > > > No luck! Downloaded and installed the PPD. Cups can see it. That is one success at least: it means a working driver is available. > I've set up a > printer. > > location: lpt0 > Printer State: idle, accepting jobs > device URI: parallel:/dev/lpt0 > > Printing the test page does not work, the job is aborted with error: > client-error-not-possible The most probable reason for this is that some user permissions are set incorrectly. We have to analyze this step by step. 1) Try to print directly from the command line: # printf "Hello World \f" > /dev/lpt0 If your printer is connected correctly to your parallel port, *something* should be printed out. Uli. > > malcolm > > _______________________________________________ > 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" ********************************************* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * *********************************************