Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:07:52 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> Cc: Malcolm Fitzgerald <thats@notyourhomework.net>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help needed compiling printer source code Message-ID: <20060423140319.S1100@www.pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <20060423133640.D1100@www.pukruppa.net> References: <658be17fbe25500c985c5b8fc35ffc95@notyourhomework.net> <20060423091441.M1100@www.pukruppa.net> <499dd1ce422438ea0c0ac99b1f41ce8b@notyourhomework.net> <20060423133640.D1100@www.pukruppa.net>
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On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: > >> >> 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. > O.K. - I see. > (Just out of interest: what happens if you try to print something > simple (eg. a text file) from the command line > # /usr/local/bin/lpr file.txt > ?) > > Did you also have a look at > http://linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=hl1250&fromprinter=Brother-HL-1230 > ? I think you might be lucky: they have got a .ppd file there for you (Brother-HL-1230-hl1250.ppd ). Download it, put it into /usr/local/share/cups/model/ restart cups by # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd restart and try setup on http://localhost:631 Regards, Uli. >> malcolm >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > > ********************************************* > * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * > ********************************************* > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ********************************************* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * *********************************************
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