Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: btillma...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 8:29 PM From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Fri Feb 26 18:20:29 2010 Date: Fri

RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: btillma...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 8:29 PM From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Fri Feb 26 18:20:29 2010 Date: Fri

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: Okay guys this is finally working. I found the answer here:   http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=64508   This didn't come up in my other searches. This morning I put in freebsd hl2040 usb into my yahoo search and this came up. Didn't you get

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port To: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com Cc: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 2:26

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port To: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com Cc: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 2:26

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port To: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com Cc: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 2:26

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: Sorry to keep beating this dead horse but I forgot to mention that this also means that I didn't need the ppd file either. The ps2hl1250 takes care of everything through ghostscript. One less thing to worry about in the setup.   I guess the only thing

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: Now one last question. I print from two segments in my home LAN. One is 10.0.0.0/24 which is where almost everything in the house is. The other is 192.168.0.0/24 which is for all the wireless devices and guests who visit with their wireless laptops. I

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I tried cups but I could not get it to work even though it found the printer on ulpt0:. You may have the permissions-related problem described here:

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: From: C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 3:44 AM On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Bill Tillman

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: This printer worked fine when I was using lpd and a parallel port. Also the apsfilter port is broken which makes it more difficult for a novice like me to get the correct setting for it with lpr method. So I was really looking forward to getting cupsd

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
searches and will try again with the #freebsd channel.   --- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 10:06 AM Resending this off-list

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:01:35 -0800 (PST) Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com articulated: Thanks for your reply. Your answers are usually spot on but this is one of those difficult times when the Windows and Linux guys at work laugh their asses off at me for being such a FreeBSD die-hard. I

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: Your answers are usually spot on but this is one of those difficult times when the Windows and Linux guys at work laugh their asses off at me for being such a FreeBSD die-hard. That's like laughing at a chef when fast food is available. So I added

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Block
LPD Printing document is now here: http://wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/lpdprinting.pdf Feedback and error corrections welcome. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
is in the queue but nothing is printing when using the USB connection. Sorry to be so much trouble. I thought this would be one of those things that would just start working. --- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Subject: Re: Printing via USB

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: Okay, I have the setup like you show and at least now the jobs show up in the queue, but nothing makes it to the printer. It's funny because I can change the one line in /etc/printcap to point to lpt0 instead of ulpt0 and it works. I have both parallel

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 4:25 PM On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote:   Thanks again for your valuable input. I have set up lpd printing on my old FreeBSD server at least a dozen times and it became a simple routine to do with apsfilter. Let me see if I can place all my cards in one place and perhaps we can find the bug.

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 5:38 PM On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: I found many drivers for the HL-12xx models. I have used this in my previous setup with my old parallel server. I actually tried what you suggested and it only worked when using the parallel cable, not the USB. For some reason the USB connection on

Printing via USB Port

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Tillman
I had a nifty setup with an old computer running as my FreeBSD file and print server. Worked so good I decided to update the computer. But since most computers no longer come with parallel port for printing I'm forced to use the USB feature on my Brother HL-2040 printer.   In the previous setup