shakky4711 said:
Dear all,
30.000 registered members in this forum and nobody out there with a running FreeBSD9 and CUPS who would spend these 30 seconds to check and support me at the error search?
Please
Shakky
shakky4711 said:
Because from 30.000 registered users nobody is using foomatic drivers I had to spend a day to setup a computer from parts I had lying around, setup FreeBSD 9, install xorg, xfce, cups and foomatic to help myself.
Hi, please do not be so harsh and challenging. It is my experience that support here is prompter than the paid support with some proprietary systems (both hardware and software). And I mean it! Of course it is not as abundant as with the GNU/Linux. However, *BSD guys are doing their best without getting any pay for support from you, right! So please do not press the volunteers who contribute their time and code for free.
As for me, I am whining for weeks with *BSD (both FreeBSD9-RELEASE and DragonFlyBSD3.0.1 and minix3) despite having sysadmin experience with former BSD, GNU/Linux, Solaris, WindowsNT versions from the last century because things have changed a lot in FreeBSD9 from kernel modules to other configs. In addition, FreeBSD9 still has some ruffages, maybe they will be cleared in 9.1, I guess.
Experiencing some issues with thermal management, drivers, package management, nanobsd compilation and so on, but just waiting the right time to get an expert opinion. See my posts with problems here:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=170378&postcount=1 and
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=30502 which give a brief preview of the unresolved problems which worked perfectly in FreeBSD-8.2.
shakky4711 said:
For all people who come from google, this is the final result:
FreeBSD 9 with CUPS and FOOMATIC does not show any foomatic drivers likewise, so my problems with my PC-BSD laptop started at the root and is not PC-BSD related.
Generally foomatic works. For my Brother laserprinters HL-1430, HL-5140 and HL-2150n I needed the hl-1250-foomatic driver, it is present at PC-BSD and can be installed this way:
Code:
- Enter the CUPS website
- Add new pinter or change it
- At the step where to enter the driver choose choose "provide pps"
Then take this path: /usr/local/share/cups/model/foomatic-db
There all drivers are present, try to identify the one you need, for all of my Brother laserprinters I had to choose "BROTHER-HL-1250-hl1250.ppd.gz"
TRAP: This driver is not present with the FreeBSD 9 foomatic installation but the PPD file which is offered at linuxprinting.org works perfect
http://www.openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.php?driver=hl1250&printer=Brother-HL-1250&show=0
Glad to see that you solved the problem just by adding a ppd file for the printer. That can also be done in command line, yet cupsd running on localhost:631 is an easy way to go.
Look you found your solution faster than my problems which is pending for a long, yet I am not complaining because it is the spirit of FLOSS (free, libre and open source softwares).
You too are helping to FLOSS world because your post above will help someone with a similar problem in the future. ;-) I, for one, think in a proactive way.
PS: Since it is already solved, it will be wise to add [SOLVED] prefix to your subject. Just my 2 cents.
zenny
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