disclaimer: this may belong in ports.
I have not been able to discover my HP LaserJet p2055dn using cups. System is:
Other computers (including a Slackware instance on same box) on the lan are discovering the printer and cups is offering to install the printer as a 'socket://<device>'.
Then, in an attempt to debug snmp discovery from the cups docs:
I've tried to locate the snmp facility for cups:
with no joy in either the pkg or port install of cups. Whats even more frustrating is that when I try to manually configure the printer as:
I am not able to print to the device as the rest of the machines on the lan are able to with the same printer identification.
I discovered a warning in the cups docs that point out that the lan must support snmp v1. I'm sure the lan does since other machines are seeing the printer. Could this be related to
some missing snmp lib or ...?
I have not been able to discover my HP LaserJet p2055dn using cups. System is:
Code:
tsunami# uname -a
FreeBSD tsunami.lan 9.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Dec 2 07:25:19 PST 2011 root@tsunami.lan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TSUNAMI amd64
Then, in an attempt to debug snmp discovery from the cups docs:
Code:
tsunami# (setenv CUPS_DEBUG_LEVEL 2; /usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp) |& tee snmp.log
/usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp: Command not found.
Code:
tsunami# find / -name '*cups*' | grep snmp
#
Code:
socket://laserjet.lan:9001
I discovered a warning in the cups docs that point out that the lan must support snmp v1. I'm sure the lan does since other machines are seeing the printer. Could this be related to
some missing snmp lib or ...?