On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:05:12 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
@ all,
I restarted machine and I can print from command line :)
[olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ cat Document1.txt | lpr -P Deskjet
[olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ lpq -a
Deskjet:
Deskjet is ready and printing
Rank Owner
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:05:12 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
@ all,
I restarted machine and I can print from command line :)
[olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ cat Document1.txt | lpr -P Deskjet
[olivares@quadcore
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:57:08 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
Polytropon,
Thank you for the suggestion. I am using bash as my shell. I have a
file ~/.bashrc with command in there and I get:
bash: setenv: command not found
Of course.
For example, your ~/.bashrc could look like this:
setxkbmap -option compose:ralt
export PRINTER=Deskjet
Keep in mind that in _this_ case, $PRINTER is set for
_your_ account only (which should be fine on a single-
user system).
However, if you set it up in /etc/csh.cshrc for
However, if you set it up in /etc/csh.cshrc for system-
wide use, user shells like bash should incorporate the
setting.
--
Polytropon,
I have made the changes, but the printer does not print :( from firefox.
I might ``try the /etc/csh.cshrc for system-
wide use'' option :) and get
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:34:46 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
I have made the changes, but the printer does not print :(
You can always check
$ echo $PRINTER
which should give you the correct printer name, as
you did correctly show. Make sure upper/lowercase
matches exactly.
When you
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:44:52 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
Made the changes with global /etc/csh.cshrc and it did not work :(
Requires re-login, but reboot should also be fine. :-)
On the root prompt which (I assume!) has the C shell
as the default dialog shell,
% echo $PRINTER
or
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:44:52 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
Made the changes with global /etc/csh.cshrc and it did not work :(
Requires re-login, but reboot should also be fine. :-)
Rebooted and firefox did not print :(
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:06:47 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:44:52 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
Made the changes with global /etc/csh.cshrc and it did not work :(
Requires re-login, but reboot
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
@ all,
I restarted machine and I can print from command line :)
[olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ cat Document1.txt | lpr -P Deskjet
[olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear folks,
I have a working installation 8.2 Release AMD64 and I am trying to
follow a printing howto :
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/lpdprinting.html
I am copying the settings and I can't print.
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote:
chkprintcap: Warning: blanks after trailing '\', at line 62 (entry lp)
chkprintcap: Warning: values-line after line with NO trailing '\', at line 63
chkprintcap:2 warnings from skimming /etc/printcap
This needs to be fixed. The entry is broken
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Warren Block wrote:
A Deskjet 812C should be a parallel printer, with device /dev/lpt0. Are you
using a USB to parallel adapter?
Cancel that, an 812C has both parallel and USB. Make sure only the USB
cable is connected, I suspect those printers don't have auto port
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Warren Block wrote:
A Deskjet 812C should be a parallel printer, with device /dev/lpt0. Are
you using a USB to parallel adapter?
Cancel that, an 812C has both parallel and USB. Make sure only the
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote:
I changed /etc/printcap, and two blank pages came out but blank :(
Okay, it's progress. And good news, that printer understands plain
ASCII and PCL3.
Make certain lpd is running (pgrep lpd), then try the test shown in the
article:
% printf
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote:
I changed /etc/printcap, and two blank pages came out but blank :(
Okay, it's progress. And good news, that printer understands plain ASCII
and PCL3.
Make certain lpd is
It requires CUPS and replaces system lpr. Here's an example on setting
up HPLIP: http://daemon-notes.com/articles/install/hplip
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Ross basarev...@gmail.com wrote:
Why you do not use
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Ross basarev...@gmail.com wrote:
It requires CUPS and replaces system lpr. Here's an example on setting
up HPLIP: http://daemon-notes.com/articles/install/hplip
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27,
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Ross basarev...@gmail.com wrote:
It requires CUPS and replaces system lpr. Here's an example on setting
up HPLIP: http://daemon-notes.com/articles/install/hplip
On Thu, Jul 28,
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Ross basarev...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Ross basarev...@gmail.com wrote:
It requires CUPS and replaces system lpr. Here's an example on setting
up HPLIP:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Ross basarev...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Ross basarev...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Ross basarev...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Ross basarev...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
I will be patient and try some things out then report back. I
appreciate the help and if I can't find a solution, I will take the
plunge :) and hopefully not fail.
Regards,
Antonio
If you do decide to take this route, it's not that hard to recompile a kernel.
# csup -h
If you do decide to take this route, it's not that hard to recompile a
kernel.
# csup -h cvsup.FreeBSD.org -L2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile
Copy your kernconf, say COFFIN, to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ if you are
on 32bit or to /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/ if on amd64.
The file
@ all,
I restarted machine and I can print from command line :)
[olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ cat Document1.txt | lpr -P Deskjet
[olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ lpq -a
Deskjet:
Deskjet is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
active
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
@ all,
I restarted machine and I can print from command line :)
[olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ cat Document1.txt | lpr -P Deskjet
[olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ lpq -a
Deskjet:
Deskjet is ready and
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