Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-24 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Monday 20 April 2009 11:58:39 am Keith Seyffarth wrote: I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption that printing from the machine

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-22 Thread Keith Seyffarth
What version of FreeBSD are you using? There was a problem with certain USB devices in the 6.x branch with timing out. What would the symptoms of this timing out be? what I'm seeing is pretty instantaneous. In fact, printing to lpr instead of cups (with cups disabled), I usually can't catch

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-22 Thread Keith Seyffarth
What kind of printing do you need to do? For the moment there are two things: 1. Create .pdf files from HTML/XHTML documents viewed in Firefox or Opera 2. Print HTML/XHTML documents viewed in Firefox or Opera to a printer. To send files to some either attached or network attached

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a yes. i do cat file /dev/lpt0 :) never used cups and never will. but i use lpd and postscript to pcl filter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 20/4/09 23:36, Keith Seyffarth wrote: Googling that shows it to be a file shared with Windows boxes when you're running samba. I don't know if you set up samba or not, but I would ignore this error for now. It's likely unrelated to the printing problem that you're having. OK.

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:58:39AM -0600, Keith Seyffarth wrote: I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption that printing from the

RE: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Ramiro Caso
I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption that printing from the machine is possible. I'm trying to get to that starting point.

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Glyn Millington
Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net writes: I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption that printing from the machine is possible. I'm

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Keith Seyffarth wrote: I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption that printing from the machine is possible. I'm trying to get to

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Glyn Millington
Sorry - meant to add this to post Take a look here:- http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-OfficeJet_4110 A free driver is available, rather than the windows .dll Good luck :-) atb Glyn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Keith Seyffarth
snip Follow the instructions here: http://desktopbsd.net/wiki/doku.php?id=doc:printing I'm currently four days of troubleshooting after having done all that's listed on that wiki entry (though I didn't find that page until yesterday), and still trying to get close. That would be one of the

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Keith Seyffarth wrote: snip Follow the instructions here: http://desktopbsd.net/wiki/doku.php?id=doc:printing I'm currently four days of troubleshooting after having done all that's listed on that wiki entry (though I didn't find that page until yesterday), and still trying to

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Sorry - meant to add this to post Take a look here:- http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-OfficeJet_4110 A free driver is available, rather than the windows .dll Downloaded and installed that ppd and selected it fro the printer. It still errors that the pscript5.dll is

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Keith Seyffarth
I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption that printing from the machine is possible. I'm trying to get to that starting

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Follow the instructions here: http://desktopbsd.net/wiki/doku.php?id=doc:printing I'm currently four days of troubleshooting after having done all that's listed on that wiki entry (though I didn't find that page until yesterday), and still trying to get close. That would be

RE: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Ramiro Caso
cups-base-1.3.9_3 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pdf-2.5.0 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_2 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers gutenprint-cups-5.1.7_3 GutenPrint Printer Driver libgnomecups-0.2.3_1,1 Support library

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Keith Seyffarth
cups-base-1.3.9_3 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pdf-2.5.0 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_2 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-= PS printers gutenprint-cups-5.1.7_3 GutenPrint Printer Driver libgnomecups-0.2.3_1=2C1 Support

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Jon Radel
Keith Seyffarth wrote: I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption that printing from the machine is possible. I'm trying to get to that

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Andrew Gould
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: cups-base-1.3.9_3 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pdf-2.5.0 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_2 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-= PS printers

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Andrew Gould
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: cups-base-1.3.9_3 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pdf-2.5.0 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, April 20, 2009 12:36:03 -0500 Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: A laudable ambition! OK, honestly, am I working under a valid assumption that it *is* possible to print from FreeBSD? Or is this just going to engender greater frustration? I can print from my FreeBSD box using

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Keith Seyffarth
snip This makes no sense at all. DLLs are a Windows version of a library. FreeBSD That's what I thought. Here's the line in question: D [20/Apr/2009:13:07:46 -0600] [CGI] /usr/local/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll: No such file or directory doesn't use them. Are you by any chance

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, April 20, 2009 14:20:48 -0500 Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: snip This makes no sense at all. DLLs are a Windows version of a library. FreeBSD That's what I thought. Here's the line in question: D [20/Apr/2009:13:07:46 -0600] [CGI]

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Modulok
On 4/20/09, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption that printing from the machine is

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Googling that shows it to be a file shared with Windows boxes when you're running samba. I don't know if you set up samba or not, but I would ignore this error for now. It's likely unrelated to the printing problem that you're having. OK. Thanks. I guess. I was kind of hoping that

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Michael David Crawford
/usr/local/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll: No such file or directory Googling that shows it to be a file shared with Windows boxes when you're running samba. I don't know if you set up samba or not, but I would ignore this error for now. It's likely unrelated to the printing problem that

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Adam Vande More
Keith Seyffarth wrote: Googling that shows it to be a file shared with Windows boxes when you're running samba. I don't know if you set up samba or not, but I would ignore this error for now. It's likely unrelated to the printing problem that you're having. OK. Thanks. I guess. I was