CUPS not working on FreeBSD 6.2-BETA

he ccjj heccjj1 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 25 00:48:55 PST 2006


I find the solution, Roland gives me the answere:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/#parport

#chown root:cups /dev/lpt0

!!FreeBSD is so sctrict!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Axel Burwitz <axel.burwitz at arcor.de>
Date: Dec 23, 2006 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: CUPS not working on FreeBSD 6.2-BETA
To: he ccjj <heccjj1 at gmail.com>


he ccjj wrote:
> On 12/23/06, Axel Burwitz <axel.burwitz at arcor.de> wrote:
>> in FreeBSD 6.2 - RC1 it works fine here.
>>
>> Sure cupsd is running? Can you administrate CUPS server with
>> http://localhost:631 ?
>
> Yes,I can connect through http://localhost:631, but when I add
> printer, I can not find the device of my HP 5100 printer, I have
> installed foomatic-db-hpijs and hpijs.
>
True, standard CUPS install covers only small part of all possible
printers in the world. You will have to experiment with printer drivers.
For me, I had to take a PPD printer driver file from Linux for my
Brother HL-5130 Laser printer...

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