From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 23 08:12:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1D6316A437 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:12:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thats@notyourhomework.net) Received: from jay.exetel.com.au (jay.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 183A843D49 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:12:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thats@notyourhomework.net) Received: (qmail 7922 invoked by uid 507); 23 Apr 2006 18:12:19 +1000 Received: from 28.101.233.220.exetel.com.au (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (220.233.101.28) by jay.exetel.com.au with SMTP; 23 Apr 2006 18:12:19 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) In-Reply-To: <20060423091441.M1100@www.pukruppa.net> References: <658be17fbe25500c985c5b8fc35ffc95@notyourhomework.net> <20060423091441.M1100@www.pukruppa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <499dd1ce422438ea0c0ac99b1f41ce8b@notyourhomework.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Malcolm Fitzgerald Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:12:23 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Cc: Subject: Re: Help needed compiling printer source code 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: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:12:21 -0000 On 23/04/2006, at 5:25 PM, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > 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. Cups is installed and running. I've tried using a few of the other printer definitions without success. Printing the test page produces a blank page or a dozen blank pages. I was hoping to be able to compile the source code for the driver and put it somewhere that cups can find it. malcolm