Printing to a USB-printer + making it available to one other
Windows machine
Ron
iampure at gmail.com
Fri May 20 09:42:14 PDT 2005
> If you can get it working locally it is easy to make it work with CUPS
> on the network. CUPS is the easiest way to print on the network.
> (though there are good reasons to use others)
>
> Start simple: get something (either ghostscript or plain text) printing
> locally. Until the printer works on freeBSD locally you can never be
> sure it isn't a flakely cable or some simple thing that you are
> misdiagnosing.
>
It's not a bad cable since the printer works under Windows and my
previous Linux install(via CUPS)
> I don't remember the original thread, did you go to
> www.linuxprinting.org and follow their instructions? In most cases
> that is enough to get your printer working.
Yes, I did.
>
> The hard part is making the printer work. Once it works, it is almost
> trivial to add CUPS.
I know.
If I want to communicate with the printer to get the inklevels etc,
the kernel crashes. (I use escputil). It's a bug in the usb drivers.
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