From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 5 07:37:26 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 B417716A4E1 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 07:37:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C93A643D53 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 07:37:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.st with local; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:37:24 +0200 id 00039826.44AB6C34.0000742E Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 09:37:24 +0200 To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20060705073724.GC29631@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20060705005324.78374.qmail@web61022.mail.yahoo.com> <200607042243.36555.amistry@am-productions.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607042243.36555.amistry@am-productions.biz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i From: dick hoogendijk Subject: Re: HP Officejet 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: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:37:26 -0000 On 04 Jul Anish Mistry wrote: > On Tuesday 04 July 2006 20:53, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > > > Anish Mistry escreveu: On Tuesday 04 > July 2006 20:35, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > > > > I'm running FBSD 6.1 release and just got a new printer for my > > > > birthday, it's an HP Officejet 4315 all-in-one, I used to have > > > > an old HP Deskjet 842c and worked fine using apsfilter but I > > > > can't make this one print, I don't see any drivers for it using > > > > apsfilter either, is there a way to make this thing work? > > > > > > print/hplip > > > > Installing it is easy but how do I have to do to make it work, what > > files I have to configure? Does it work using apsfilter? > I missed the apsfilter part. It uses cups. You need to have the > printer attach as a ugen device, make the changes to devfs.rules in > the pkg-message and add the necessary lines to rc.conf to start it > all. This printer works perfectly with apsfilter. The latter does /not/ need cups (luckely imho) but works very well with the standard unix lpd. Install apsfilter with "portinstall -rR apsfilter" and you'll be happy. You can also go for cups, but make sure you read some installation papers on the net very carefully. Google is your friend. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 +++ The Power to Serve