--- On Fri, 2/26/10, C. P. Ghost <[email protected]> wrote:
From: C. P. Ghost <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 3:44 AM On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Bill Tillman <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried cups but I could not get it to work even though it found the printer > on > ulpt0:. You may have the permissions-related problem described here: http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2010/02/02/printing-woes-on-freebsd-8-with-cups/ Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ Thanks, that's some very useful information but alas it did not help me. After further testing here is what I can say: 1. The ugen device does not show up in dmesg. 2. The ulpt0 device does show up and it clearly identifies the Brother-HL-2040 printer on the other end of the USB cable. # dmesg | grep ulpt ulpt0: <Brother HL-2040 series, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2> on uhub0 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode 3, I edited /etc/devfs.rules as instructed and restarted the service. I then restarted cupsd. Nothing changed. I cold booted the entire setup but still cupd web interface will not find the printer. If I manually enter the printer and then install a ppd file for it I still get nothing to print. This printer worked fine when I was using lpd and a parallel port. Also the apsfilter port is broken which makes it more difficult for a novice like me to get the correct setting for it with lpr method. So I was really looking forward to getting cupsd working this time round. Any additional advice would be appreciated. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
