The Brothers 2170W works almost out of the box. I had to install cups,
print/foomatic-filters,
print/foomatic-db and
print/foomatic-db-engine. I think the last one actually supplied the driver. I also installed cups itself.
Then, when I opened the web interface, it had already seen the networked printer. The only other issue I had was that if I checked off, in the first dialog window, the already seen printer, it gave it an lpd connection (which I don't remember) and it wasn't working till I changed it to the simple
type of connection. That is, in one of the first dialog windows, instead of checking the radio box for the printer, I checked the box that said AppSocket/HP JetDirect. I then chose, out of several available drivers, the one marked hpijs-cl5e, and it worked without problems one on install. However, on a second install, I kept getting filter failed, it wouldn't print, and I never tracked it down.
Lastly after some upgrades, it stopped working to the point where I said, The heck with it, and now if I have to use it, print from Linux. (This is the sort of thing that _does_ make me wish FreeBSD would become more popular,.)
(I realize this is an old post by now, but figured the updates might be useful for someone in the future, including myself if I forget what I did).
I will end this addition to an old post by saying that eventually, I got it working by following
wblock@'s instructions at
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/lpdprinting.html for printing using
lpd instead of
cups. However as the printer can handle postscript, I used the Handbook's script, using
enscript.
wblock@'s page has a script for printers that can't handle postscript. The Handbook's page is at
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/printing-lpd.html
