On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:26:29 -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Hope this can help:
>
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=27666
>
> There are many things that could be interfering?
Done as explained in the thread. Even
# cp /usr/local/share/examples/cups/ulpt-cupsd.conf /usr/local/etc/devd
has been done.
> - Create /etc/devfs.rules with the following, which sets the
> permissions and associates print devices with the cups group:
>
> [system=10]
> add path 'unlpt*' mode 0660 group cups
> add path 'ulpt*' mode 0660 group cups
> add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups
Checked and already present. I think I should not have
to fiddle with the ugen* devices?
Note: The scanner is currently not interesting to me,
but sane-find-scanners reports it:
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04e8
[Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.],
product=0x3425 [CLX-216x Series])
at libusb:/dev/usb:/dev/ugen4.2
The printer should be on a similar address, but it does
already pop up as ulpt device which should be good. :-)
An additional
ulpt0: output error
message appear in the system log after the device is
recognized (plugged in).
I also made a comparable set of settings in /etc/devfs.conf
if the printer is detected at boot time.
own ulpt0 root:cups
perm ulpt0 0666
own unlpt0 root:cups
perm unlpt0 0666
That should be fine.
> - Add root and other users to cups group in /etc/group
Done.
> - Enable CUPS and the above rules at startup by adding these lines to
> /etc/rc.conf:
>
> cupsd_enable="YES"
> devfs_system_ruleset="system"
Also already done. I'm already running CUPS to address the
HP Laerjet 4000d via LAN (what a waste, I know).
> Then hopefully the printer shows up in cups http://localhost:631 :)
No auto-detection, no local printers to be configured. :-(
> If none of this works, you may try adding the apsfilter port and use
> it to configure the printer? But see if the above helps.
I've been using apsfilter in the past happily as it could
even to things like
% lpr sometext.txt
but CUPS truncates the output as soon as an Umlaut or Eszett
appears. Great multilingual tool. :-)
As I said, I "have" (note the quotes) to use CUPS because
many programs say so. For example, Opera doesn't play with
system's lpr anymore, Gimp has hardcoded stuff in it, and
I believe many programs will follow this road...
Anyway, I will surely dump CUPS as it doesn't work for me.
Brings no benefit, even the simplest things (adding a
printer by specifying port and type) is _impossible_).
I'll begin to write a lpr printer filter instead. That
has been proven to work (see initial message). :-)
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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