On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
I'm trying to install a Brother HL-1230 printer. I've been to the Brother web
site and found that they don't have drivers for FreeBSD but they do provide
the source code. I downloaded the source code. So far so good. I unzipped the
tarball and had a look. There's the source code.
I don't know what to do with it. I've learnt to type "make install clean".
How do I make this code into something useful?
sad kid :-(
I guess make install clean will not be enough for that.
For a start have a look at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing.html
and try to make your printer print "something" at all.
Also reading it will teach you some new words :-)
Then there exist two well known programms which can help you to
set up your printer correctly
/usr/ports/print/apsfilter
and
/usr/ports/print/cups
I would try apsfilter first, since it works a bit more
intuitively.
Good luck,
Uli.
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