Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:36:20 -0400 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS Message-ID: <20111028063620.3b5304d2@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20111028081055.4A5B3106564A@hub.freebsd.org> References: <op.v306g2om34t2sn@tech304> <20111028081055.4A5B3106564A@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:08:07 +0000 (GMT) Thomas Mueller articulated: > from Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>: > > > You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it > > would take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my > > print jobs are instantaneous here at work instead of being a > > mystery. Can't wait to go home and do the same with my personal > > laser. > > I wish I could do that with my HP n1212mf LaserJet, but the necessary > hplip port depends on cups-base. > > I could not get that printer to work on the old computer under > FreeBSD 8.2 and NetBSD 5.1_STABLE, problems with the tricky USB > interface, won't work with ulpt, but I didn't try the ethernet way > yet. > > On the new computer, FreeBSD being the only hard-drive OS installed > so far, I built hplip but haven't tested it yet. Upgrading by source > from FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 to RC1, I was sure to deactivate ulpt in the > kernel config file. I am still struggling with some files in /etc > messed up by mergemaster. I may have found a solution but haven't > tested it yet; I did back up my old /etc directory. > > Then I have to portupgrade hplip and dependencies (portupgrade > -r ...) or the portmaster equivalent. Welcome to the wonderful world of printing on FreeBSD. By the way, is the time you are investing in this venture considered billable hours or just self-flagellation? -- Jerry ✌ jerry+fbsd@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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