Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:37:00 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Michael <map7@optusnet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: canon lbp-1210 Message-ID: <41DB6EEC.4010704@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <41DB1C74.2000809@optusnet.com.au> References: <41DB1C74.2000809@optusnet.com.au>
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Hello, Michael --- (format corrected) Please wrap your lines at about 70 characters to help your post be more "friendly" to those of us who use text-only MUA's on console machines.... Michael wrote: > I'm trying to get my canon lbp-1210 to work under freebsd, it > doesn't have any emulation and seems to be a windows only > printer. Possibly correct, but IANAE and can't say for sure. > Is there anyway to use windows drivers under freebsd for the printer? > (EG: like the ndiswrapper is used to make windows network drivers > work under freebsd) > I haven't heard of anything, but keep reading, if you will... > When I plug in the printer to my freebsd4.10 machine into > the USB slot it comes up as a 'ugen' which says to me that > the computer doesn't know what the device is at all. I've tried > installing CUPs and looking for a suitable driver through CUPs > but couldn't find one. I'm now trying to find alternatives. I would suggest trying aspfilter then, also in ports. > The printer has USB and parallel and prints fine under windows. > What about if I put a windows box as my printer server and is it > possible to send printing through samba so that windows will > catch it and convert it to the crappy printer of mine? > (EG: RAW --> Canon LBP-1210 windows drivers). > > ~Michael I do this at home via apsfilter (which automagically did most of the Samba stuff for me) to a HP 6110 multi-function on an XP box via Ethernet, so it might work for you, but YMMV.... HTH, Kevin Kinsey
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