Re: USB Printer problem

rac <rcn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am trying to set up a USB printer to work with freebsd 6.2.
the printer is a lexmark x1270 and i have installed cups 1.2.2

I found these instructions on installing a driver for it on a linux
system:( at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=49714)

Hold on a second. Those instructions are for Ubuntu. FreeBSD is not
Ubuntu, not even Linux, so you'll have to adapt them.

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$ mkdir lexmark
$ mv CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz lexmark # move the package to a folder.
$ tar -xvzf CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz # extract the driver.
$ tail -n +143 z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh > install.tar.gz # the sh dont
# work

That skips over a header in the needlessly complicated archive Lexmark
chose to use. Works here, with csh, although "the sh dont work" doesn't
say what problem you have.

$ tar -xvzf install.tar.gz # extract the contents produced by tail

This produces a couple of rpm files.

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# these two commands are not recognised by bsd & rpms work
$ alien -t z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm # convert unusable rpm packages to tgz.
$ alien -t z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm # convert unusable rpm packages tgz.

No idea, some Linux or Ubuntu thing.

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If run rpm -i here I get this out put:

What you have now are two Linux rpms.

rpm -q -l -p z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm shows that the files you need are
there:

/usr/lib/cups/backend/z600
/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoz600
/usr/share/cups/model/Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz

Probably at least rastertoz600 is a Linux binary, and will need to run
under Linux compatibility. Hardly having touched that, I'm going to
leave that up to someone else.

Do not expect any of the rest of the Ubuntu or other Linux instructions
to work. FreeBSD is not Linux.

--
Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA
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