Hi all,
I am a rank amateur when it comes to admining FreeBSD, but I am trying to set up printing from a laptop to a wireless printer on the same network. Here is what I tried and how it failed, and I would love some advice:
First I ran hp-probe with these results:
Then I pinged the printer just to make sure and, indeed, it is pingable.
But with
I am not really even sure how to proceed. I know CUPS is installed, but I haven't configured it at all (nor do I know how).
Thanks for any help possible
I am a rank amateur when it comes to admining FreeBSD, but I am trying to set up printing from a laptop to a wireless printer on the same network. Here is what I tried and how it failed, and I would love some advice:
First I ran hp-probe with these results:
Code:
Device URI Model Name
---------------------------------------------- ----------------------- --------
hp:/net/Officejet_Pro_8500_A910?ip=192.168.1.5 Officejet_Pro_8500_A910 HP2E806B
Then I pinged the printer just to make sure and, indeed, it is pingable.
But with
hp-setup 192.168.1.5
I get this:
Code:
Searching for device...
error: Device not found. Please make sure your printer is properly connected and powered-on.
error: Invalid manual discovery parameter.
Thanks for any help possible