Anonymous coward wrote: > I am getting "Broken Pipe" and or "Scheduler not responding" when > attempting to print from a laser desk printer directly attached to usb. > OpenBSD 6.0 recognizes the printer in dmesg and when plugged into the > usb port. > > I have been running OpenBSD for several years but never tried to attach > a printer. > > I also have downloaded a cups ppd driver for the printer and placed it > in the cups ppd directory. >
PPD is not a driver! It is a PostScript Printer Description file created by vendors to describe the entire set of features and capabilities available for their PostScript printers. The real problem is that your printer is not a PostScript printer which you could have found out by reading page 3 of the product brochure https://www.brother-usa.com/VirData/Content/en-US/Printers/ModelBrochures/HL2100Series_cat.pdf which means that you really need a driver. Going back to the page three of above brochure we see that you printer emulates HL-2:40 GD which is proprietary language but also PCL 6 (Printer Command Language is in generally open sourced). However based on the fact that Brother recommends its own driver for Linux which contains binary blob I would be tempted to declare the printer paperweight with a caveat. If you printer is network capable you might be able to send the raw data to port 9100. Please see again page 3 of the brochure. Your /etc/printacap # Remote printer must use jetdirect since foomatic-rip doesn't speak LPD rp|HL-5250DN:\ :lp=9100@192.168.3.15:\ :if=/etc/foomatic-rip/script_brother.sh:\ :sh:sd=/var/spool/output/brother:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: where script_brother.sh is an ugly work around foomatic filter which no longer supports LPD spooling and it looks like #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/a2ps -BRq --columns=1 -o - | \ /usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip -P HL-5250DN --ppd /etc/foomatic-rip/direct/brother-hl-5250dn-postscript-brother.ppd The printer you are attempting to use cost about $20 here in U.S. The one I use HL-5200 or its newer versions could be found for under $100 and it is a PostScript printer of superb quality in its price range (also exceptionally low price per page). You might want to think about it a bit before waisting your time with the printer you have. > If someone can just point me where to research these errors I should be > able to determine the cause and maybe get the brother HL2140 directly > attached usb printer working. > I would expect from a seasoned OpenBSD user to know to look for errors in the log files. Hint /var/log/lpd-errs I am guessing you are going to see nothing as your printer is just paperwight. > I see no error messages in dmesg which relate to printing. I would not expect to see any unless printer interface is so messed up that generic usb driver can't attach to the device. Best, Predrag > Thanks in advance.
