Re: Having trouble getting cups working
Written by Andrew Falanga on 04/22/08 09:40 HI, I've never actually tried to install cups before and last night decided to give it a try because I was not having much success getting my printer working using the handbook directions. (I got it all setup correctly, obviously something is incorrect but stay with me, and although I could get stuff to print when I did 'cat somefile /dev/lp0' I couldn't get anything to print when I submitted to lpd.) So, I installed cups from ports, and setup my HP LaserJet 4+. All seemed to go well. At first I had a problem with an error, something like unknown application/postscript. Anyway, some digging on the internet revealed that I needed ESP Ghostscript installed. So, I got that and that error went away. Now, however, I still cannot get it to print. When I try to submit the printer test page from the web management interface, it says, network host 'sniper' busy: will retry in X seconds. The URI I'm using for my printer is, lpd://sniper/lj4. The printer is connected to my parallel port and I think this is what I want because the other options are whatever it is that cups calls JetDirect and then IPP and something else. Anyway, if someone could please point me in the correct direction I'd appreciate it greatly. Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your device URI should not be an lpd URI, especially since you can't print with lpd. Use a 'parallel' URI in your case; parallel:/dev/lpt0 works for me. When you want to refer to the printer from an external system, use ipp://hostname/printers/printername ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Having trouble getting cups working
On Tuesday 22 April 2008 9:40:16 am Andrew Falanga wrote: HI, I've never actually tried to install cups before and last night decided to give it a try because I was not having much success getting my printer working using the handbook directions. (I got it all setup correctly, obviously something is incorrect but stay with me, and although I could get stuff to print when I did 'cat somefile /dev/lp0' I couldn't get anything to print when I submitted to lpd.) So, I installed cups from ports, and setup my HP LaserJet 4+. All seemed to go well. At first I had a problem with an error, something like unknown application/postscript. Anyway, some digging on the internet revealed that I needed ESP Ghostscript installed. So, I got that and that error went away. Now, however, I still cannot get it to print. When I try to submit the printer test page from the web management interface, it says, network host 'sniper' busy: will retry in X seconds. The URI I'm using for my printer is, lpd://sniper/lj4. The printer is connected to my parallel port and I think this is what I want because the other options are whatever it is that cups calls JetDirect and then IPP and something else. I've just been dealing with the same thing the last day or two. First off, the uri you want is parallel:/dev/lpt0. The advise I was given yesterday was to add the following to /etc/devfs.conf (requires reboot) own lpt0 root:cups perm lpt0 0660 or to... chown /dev/lpt0 root:cups chmod 0660 lpt0 After making that change, the parallel port still wasn't listed as an available device (along with JetDirect, IPP, LPD, etc). I ended up resetting my /usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf file to default and redid the settings. After restarting the cupsd I suddenly had the parallel and usb ports listed. I'm guessing I had a typo in my original setup. HTH. Dave Anyway, if someone could please point me in the correct direction I'd appreciate it greatly. Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Having trouble getting cups working
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Written by Andrew Falanga on 04/22/08 09:40 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your device URI should not be an lpd URI, especially since you can't print with lpd. Use a 'parallel' URI in your case; parallel:/dev/lpt0 works for me. When you want to refer to the printer from an external system, use ipp://hostname/printers/printername How interesting. I suspected something like this but the web interface didn't show a parallel URI. Thank you all. I'll give this a try tonight when I get home. Andy -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Having trouble getting cups working
On Tuesday 22 April 2008 09:16:42 Reid Linnemann wrote: Your device URI should not be an lpd URI, especially since you can't print with lpd. Use a 'parallel' URI in your case; parallel:/dev/lpt0 works for me. When you want to refer to the printer from an external system, use ipp://hostname/printers/printername Thank you all. My problem, as you all know, was the URI. I changed to using parallel:/dev/lpt0 and everything is working great. This is too cool! Because there wasn't a URI of that type listed on the administration web page, I didn't think to use something other than what was there. At any rate, I'm printing from KPDF and it's really cool! Thanks again. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
