Re: Configuring a HP Laserjet 1018 USB printer on KDE

--On Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:24:04 -0700 Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

User &Robert Falanga wrote:
First am new using freebsd and would like help getting the printer
configured. After installing and staarting CUPS. When I go to SETTINGS >
Peripherals > printers I get:

That is not the way to configure printer on vanilla FreeBSD. If you want to
use something like that
install PC-BSD or DesktopBSD.


Well, I beg to differ with you. That's one way to do it. Yours is another.

To install the printer do the following
1. Alter permission on the device nodes chmod 0660 /dev/ulpt0

2. chgrp cupsd /dev/ulpt0

3. Add yourself to cupsd group by editing file /etc/groups


I didn't have to do any of this.

4. Move the commands of the native lpd printing system so that you can use
CUPS commands
mv /usr/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp.bak
mv /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr.bak
mv /usr/bin/lpq /usr/bin/lpq.bak
mv /usr/bin/lprm /usr/bin/lprm.bak


This is good advice, *if* the cups install has not already overwritten the base for you.
.if defined(CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE)
if test -e /usr/bin/lp; then ${CHMOD} -h 0 /usr/bin/lp; fi
if test -e /usr/bin/lpq; then ${CHMOD} -h 0 /usr/bin/lpq; fi
if test -e /usr/bin/lpr; then ${CHMOD} -h 0 /usr/bin/lpr; fi
if test -e /usr/bin/lprm; then ${CHMOD} -h 0 /usr/bin/lprm; fi
if test -e /usr/sbin/lpc; then ${CHMOD} -h 0 /usr/sbin/lpc; fi
.endif

# ls -lsa /usr/bin/lp*
4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 2590 Feb 21 12:59 /usr/bin/lp
26 -r-Sr-Sr-- 1 root daemon 25876 Feb 21 12:59 /usr/bin/lpq
30 -r-Sr-Sr-- 1 root daemon 29368 Feb 21 12:59 /usr/bin/lpr
26 -r-Sr-Sr-- 1 root daemon 24600 Feb 21 12:59 /usr/bin/lprm


4. Restart cupsd for instance by adding cupsd_enable="YES" into your
/etc/rc.conf at the same time
disable lpd daemon by adding lpd_enable="NO"


Also good advice.

5. Reboot

6. Point the web-browser to http://localhost:631 to add the printer


Unfortunately, this didn't work for me. I got the source code for the page displayed in my browser. If I added a ? to the end (http://localhost:631/?), then the page was displayed.

NOTE:

1. Your printer is using foo2zjs reversed engineered driver which you must
compile from ports. People
have reported mixed results with the driver! You have to compile the driver
before you start adding the printer.


Seems to me, for HP printers, the hpijs driver is the right choice. print/hpijs

2. You might need to disable your firewall or at least port 631 which is used
by Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
which is in turned used by CUPS.


Only if you want to be a print server. If you're just printing from a workstation, you don't need to worry about incoming traffic on 631.

Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager:
Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly
installed and running. Error: localhost: read failed (14).

This sounds like he didn't put cupsd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.

If I use LPR/LPRng things seem to be going well until I get to the screen
asking for URI: I have no clue as to what it is asking for.


You might have to uninstall and reinstall cups. I did. The first time didn't work for some reason.

I used KDE's control center to set up the printer as well as the printer manager. Everything worked fine after the initial failure and the subsequent reinstall.

--
Paul Schmehl (pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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