From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 07:09:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EAE71065679 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:09:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D358FC0C for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:09:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from OMTA02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.19]) by QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id HEfs1b01K0QkzPwA6K9Kso; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:09:19 +0000 Received: from localhost ([76.102.24.75]) by OMTA02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id HK9J1b00C1dCpWs8NK9Jdm; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:09:18 +0000 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:09:26 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti To: prad Message-ID: <20090218070926.GP1126@bsd.remdog.net> Mail-Followup-To: prad , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printer hp officejet pro k8600 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:09:18 -0000 > > > These are the four files that I have installed: > > > > foomatic-db-20070124_2 Foomatic database > > foomatic-db-engine-20070124,1 Foomatic database engine > > foomatic-db-hpijs-1.4 Foomatic data for the HPIJS printer drivers > > foomatic-filters-3.0.2_4 Foomatic wrapper scripts > > > thank rem! > following your instructions and learning that i had a corrupt ppd file, > i downloaded a new one from linuxprinting.org > > now the rip problem is gone and everything appears as though it should > work just fine. > > unfortunately, cups sees the printer as 'busy' and keeps retrying the > test page. i can ping the printer and print to it from both linux and xp > machines, but it is showing up as busy even though i shut it off and > restarted. > > i can't seem to print from the console either using lp - the job shows > up as processing or pending but nothing prints. Do you have devfs.rules in your /etc directory that has this contained within: [system=10] add path 'unlpt*' mode 0660 group cups add path 'ulpt*' mode 0660 group cups add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups There is a whole permissions thing that has to be correct or cups won't play. --Rem