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  1. shepper

    mutt vs neomutt on freebsd

    There were a series of User Interface patches that were often applied to mutt binaries but were not included in mutt upstream. Off the top of my head, a sidebar was one such patch. Neomutt incorporated the patches. If your happy with your mutt configuration , neomutt will only add features...
  2. shepper

    OKI printer not working

    HP's jet direct port is a stable networking protocol available as a CUPs configuration option. I'm currently using it with a postscript ppd. socket://PrinterIPAddress:9100
  3. shepper

    OKI printer not working

    If you look at the code in the C330PS.ppd, the bulk of it is generic postscript. It does have some OKI specific external commands like job accounting and "smoothing" algorithms.. The code calls for the OKI specific commands will not be found in FreeBSD. CUPs does it's own job accounting...
  4. shepper

    OKI printer not working

    You may be making this too hard. According to this spec sheet Oki C530dn spec sheet This printer supports Oki's version of postscript and PCL6. Should work with either Postscript or print/ghostscript pxlcolor ppd's.
  5. shepper

    Solved Network printing issue...

    a2ps works like print/enscript. Both will output a postscript file (.ps) on the input of plain text (.txt) So the handbook examples using enscript should also work. a2ps, will also use ImageMagick to convert image formats (*jpeg, *png) to postscript. If your printing starts with a postscript...
  6. shepper

    Solved Network printing issue...

    Actually rastertobrlaser is provided by print/brlaser - not a linux binary. FreeBSD Makefile for brlaser - with PLIST Edit, just occured to me, now that print/ghostscript10 supports the brlaser driver, you should be able to use sDEVICE=brlaser in a print filter in LPR. Create an executable...
  7. shepper

    Solved Network printing issue...

    When I have used cups, localhost:631 has always worked out of the box. There are 2 potential pitfalls: 1. The cups server is not running 2. Possibly the browser needs to have it's storage cache cleared. What I would do is uninstall the cups package and double check that the /usr/local/etc/...
  8. shepper

    Solved Network printing issue...

    I was coming back to edit my reply. In OpenBSD there have been some code commits to cups-filters and I retried lpr setup using foomatic-rip described here: pkg-readme for cups-filters Initially, the print job did not go through: #!/bin/sh ${LOCALBASE}/bin/a2ps -BRq --columns=1 -o - | \...
  9. shepper

    Solved Network printing issue...

    Several comments. I believe tha the HL-L 2300 is a GDI printer and print/brlaser should be a more capable filter. The Brlaser site says the HL-L 2300D is supported: Brlaser github The handbook describes using netcat to test the connection: # nc netlaser 9100 < sample.txt You have to setup...
  10. shepper

    Solved Printing a PDF results in garbled output

    There are several pdf -> ps interpreters. graphics/poppler https://poppler.freedesktop.org/ Command pdftops. Evince uses poppler. print/ghostscript https://www.ghostscript.com/ Command pdf2ps I have good results w/ graphics/zathura-pdf-mupdf (ghostscript based) but I do use lpr printing...
  11. shepper

    Surprised to learn that the BSDs are dying

    The Open Source foundation is developing IBM/Redhat cracks. Redhat no longer publishing release source code. You could see it coming when Redhat hired the 4 independent Centos developers and essentially subsumed the project. Gnome with Wayland/Pulseaudio/Pipewire will likely be the first...
  12. shepper

    Preferred DE of the FreeBSD users

    If the current poll is any indicator: XFCE4 = 26.5% KDE = 17.1% Gnome = 5.9%
  13. shepper

    Preferred DE of the FreeBSD users

    A different angle on this is what would you recommend to a FreeBSD newbie looking for a work station? I'll make an argument that XFCE4 is the most BSDunix friendly largely because 2 OpenBSD members are core XFCE4 developers. Gnome is driven by IBM/Redhat and KDE by Suse and I'm not aware that...
  14. shepper

    sending pdf files to pcl printer from command line

    If you set up printcap, start lpd, you will get: spooling lpq job control/lpcdaemon control interfaces to print/a2ps, graphics/zathura-pdf-mupdf and other programs error logging in /var/log/lpd-errs
  15. shepper

    Multiboot

    aka UUID's.
  16. shepper

    TP-Link Archer T4U Plus Support

    I can think of several instances where FreeBSD documentation lags reality and those trying to help are shooting the in dark. Device recognition by VendorID/DeviceID, firmware loading and driver matching would all be logged in the dmesg. The OP alludes to the fact that driver is now in the...
  17. shepper

    TP-Link Archer T4U Plus Support

    rtwn_usb These require firmware: rtwnfw If your sure it is the right chipset and the firmware is enabled but it is still not working then it is a matter of adding the VendorID/DeviceID
  18. shepper

    Multiboot

    There are 2 ways to dual boot. The first is to select the boot device in the bios. Live FreeBSD usb (sorry for the ad) The second is to have a bootloader with a boot menu. Grub2 is most common but ReFind and Syslinux also support boot menus. The issue with the /etc/fstab entry is it is...
  19. shepper

    TP-Link Archer T4U Plus Support

    Not supported yet: urtwn urtw The letter codes at the end of the model series matter. You can copy/paste the supported model numbers in ebay, amazon or newegg search and get devices that match for under $10USD. Supported wireless devices are on the Hardware Support web page. Unfortunately...
  20. shepper

    sending pdf files to pcl printer from command line

    hruodr print filter is the correct one but they traditionally are placed in /usr/local/libexec. This lacks executable permissions and usually the owner:group is daemon:daemon The reason the files go into /usr/local/libexec is that they are executable files See the handbook for correct...
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