Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread albi
gabriel wrote: I call this e-mail Network Printing because that, along with many other strings I've been googling for the past two days. This is the situation, I've got an HP PSC2510 and I've gotten everything working (copier, fax, scanner) except for the printing. I've got this printer connected

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread gabriel
I'm not sure what you mean by try the jetdirect, - I had cupsd running and I accessed and configured a printer in localhost:631, however, when the time came to print a test page, it wouldnt, a page would be printed out that says *** Unable to open the initial device, quiting. Cheers! On Sat, 22

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread albi
gabriel wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by try the jetdirect, - I had cupsd running and I accessed and configured a printer in localhost:631, however, when the time came to print a test page, it wouldnt, a page would be printed out that says *** Unable to open the initial device, quiting. in

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread Gerard Samuel
gabriel wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by try the jetdirect, PORT STATE SERVICE 9100/tcp open jetdirect === This One Jetdirect is HP's print server ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread gabriel
Yeah I already use AppSocket/HP JetDirect in cups. Check out http://normal1.net/tcpdump for a real quick dump done when Printing test page. After the print test is done, I go check on the job in Manage Jobs and I see this, ID Name User Size State Control HPPrinter-5

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 22 at 15:02, Gerard Samuel launched this into the bitstream: gabriel wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by try the jetdirect, PORT STATE SERVICE 9100/tcp open jetdirect === This One Jetdirect is HP's print server You mean the blackbox (JetDirect) sold in better stores is

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread gabriel
heh, everything BUT printing is working, I've even got it scanning! I cant believe this. I refuse to go to windows for anything, that and the fact that I dont have a place to install windows is what thrives my dispair. On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:23:50 +0100, Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread Oliver Leitner
which printing queue manager are you using? is your printer pingeable (or in any other way reachable) from your bsd box? does your printing queue manager recognize the printer? what do your printer queue manager and daemon logs on the bsd box say? Greetings Oliver Leitner Technical Staff

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread Chris Hill
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: Damn, I was on the *verge* of heading out next week to buy one of those given that I could *not* get my all-in-one HP psc2105 to function at all. I'd given up after days of struggle since the end didn't seem to justify the means. (Windows XP box is pretty

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread gabriel
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:29:57 +0100, Oliver Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which printing queue manager are you using? Manger? CUPS, Mind you this is my first time trying to setup a printer. is your printer pingeable (or in any other way reachable) from your bsd box? It is pingable, I am able

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 22 at 18:10, Chris Hill launched this into the bitstream: On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: Damn, I was on the *verge* of heading out next week to buy one of those given that I could *not* get my all-in-one HP psc2105 to function at all. I'd given up after days of struggle

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread Oliver Leitner
I did a search on google for that error, and i might have found something that you may wanna try: cp /usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter please tell me if it works=) Greetings Oliver Leitner Technical Staff http://www.shells.at On Sunday 23 January 2005 00:12, gabriel

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread gabriel
Nope, nothing. :\ On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:16:44 +0100, Oliver Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a search on google for that error, and i might have found something that you may wanna try: cp /usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter please tell me if it works=)

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread gabriel
You know, mine has an ethernet card, I tried it and checked /var/spool/output/lpd in status and it says waiting for hpprinter to come up - which is the sad part cause its already up. Thanks for the tip to the list though! On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:10:28 -0500 (EST), Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread Oliver Leitner
To inform the list as well... The bug got fixed after setting the Loglevel to debug in the cups.conf we found out that the tmp dir wasnt existant, so he created the tmp dir, and set the right permissions, and it worked. Greetings Oliver Leitner Technical Staff http://www.shells.at -- By