Re: Configuring FBSD to use HP Photosmart C6180

On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 02:12:55PM -0700, White Hat wrote:
I just purchased a HP Photosmart C6180 All-in-One
printer. It is connected to my network via a wireless
network. The FBSD PC is hardwired to the router. The
printer works flawlessly from the WinXP machines on
the network.

I installed the 'hplip' port without any difficulties.
I tried "snmpwalk" and it worked fine. The problem is
that I do not know how to configure FBSD to use the
printer to print with.

According to
http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-PhotoSmart_C6180
it should work. You might find the rest of the OpenPrinting site
informative as well.

What I would recommend is that you install CUPS, with
CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=true set in /etc/make.conf. After installing CUPS
and activating it in /etc/rc.conf, start it and surf to http://localhost:631/
Press the "Add Printer" button and follow the instructions.

Roland
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