Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:48:25 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Malcolm Fitzgerald <thats@notyourhomework.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help needed compiling printer source code Message-ID: <20060423133640.D1100@www.pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <499dd1ce422438ea0c0ac99b1f41ce8b@notyourhomework.net> References: <658be17fbe25500c985c5b8fc35ffc95@notyourhomework.net> <20060423091441.M1100@www.pukruppa.net> <499dd1ce422438ea0c0ac99b1f41ce8b@notyourhomework.net>
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On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: > > On 23/04/2006, at 5:25 PM, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > >> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to install a Brother HL-1230 printer. I've been to the Brother >>> web site and found that they don't have drivers for FreeBSD but they do >>> provide the source code. I downloaded the source code. So far so good. I >>> unzipped the tarball and had a look. There's the source code. >>> >>> >>> I don't know what to do with it. I've learnt to type "make install clean". >>> How do I make this code into something useful? >>> >>> sad kid :-( >> I guess make install clean will not be enough for that. >> >> For a start have a look at >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing.html >> and try to make your printer print "something" at all. >> Also reading it will teach you some new words :-) >> >> Then there exist two well known programms which can help you to set up your >> printer correctly >> /usr/ports/print/apsfilter >> and >> /usr/ports/print/cups >> I would try apsfilter first, since it works a bit more intuitively. > > > Cups is installed and running. I've tried using a few of the other printer > definitions without success. Printing the test page produces a blank page or > a dozen blank pages. I was hoping to be able to compile the source code for > the driver and put it somewhere that cups can find it. O.K. - I see. (Just out of interest: what happens if you try to print something simple (eg. a text file) from the command line # /usr/local/bin/lpr file.txt ?) Did you also have a look at http://linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=hl1250&fromprinter=Brother-HL-1230 ? The standard way to build and install sources on UNIX would be: # tar zxf application.tgz # cd application # ./configure # make # make install But often you find hints/READMES inside "application" directory what else you have to do. 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 * *********************************************
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