Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:45:54 +0100 From: Chabane HEMDANI <hemdani2009@gmail.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer Message-ID: <AANLkTim89g-u-S4D0q-a_BgiG7Oy57dB-BDznN74g29A@mail.gmail.com>
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I'm computer science teacher at university of Tizi-ouzou in Algeria. I'm using FreeBSD since 2007 when I "discover" it by chance when searching in the Web something about Linux. Since that date, I always invited and recommended to my students to install and use this "magical" and my favorite system. However, all my students retort me that they have a problem of installing their printers. I have so this problem, so I can't tell good-bye definitively to winosor and Linux. I always need them for printing. I've search, read, learn, follow instructions about nearly all the web-documentation about installing a new printer to work under cups without any success. I've an HP Laser Jet 1018 printer and tools given by package print/hplip don't work correctly. I'm using FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE I've rebuild a kernel without ulpt. I modified my /etc/rc.conf to enable cupsd and hpiod and hpssd. I modified /etc/devfs.rules like suggested by cups (see pkg_info -D cups-base-1.4.4 ). I've made many other configurations like that suggested at http://diablotins.org/index.php/Imprimer,_hplip <http://diablotins.org/index.php/Imprimer,_hplip%20>; and finally, I've given to my students the wrong answer that "no one can print under FreeBSD !" Please where is the problem? Please help me to help others. Please help me to enlarge the FreeBSD users community.
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