Help needed compiling printer source code
P.U.Kruppa
root at pukruppa.de
Sun Apr 23 10:51:40 UTC 2006
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>
>>
>> On 23/04/2006, at 5:25 PM, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to install a Brother HL-1230 printer. I've been to the Brother
>>>> web site and found that they don't have drivers for FreeBSD but they do
>>>> provide the source code. I downloaded the source code. So far so good. I
>>>> unzipped the tarball and had a look. There's the source code.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't know what to do with it. I've learnt to type "make install
>>>> clean". How do I make this code into something useful?
>>>>
>>>> sad kid :-(
>>> I guess make install clean will not be enough for that.
>>>
>>> For a start have a look at
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing.html
>>> and try to make your printer print "something" at all.
>>> Also reading it will teach you some new words :-)
>>>
>>> Then there exist two well known programms which can help you to set up
>>> your printer correctly
>>> /usr/ports/print/apsfilter
>>> and
>>> /usr/ports/print/cups
>>> I would try apsfilter first, since it works a bit more intuitively.
>>
>>
>> Cups is installed and running. I've tried using a few of the other printer
>> definitions without success. Printing the test page produces a blank page
>> or a dozen blank pages. I was hoping to be able to compile the source code
>> for the driver and put it somewhere that cups can find it.
> O.K. - I see.
> (Just out of interest: what happens if you try to print something
> simple (eg. a text file) from the command line
> # /usr/local/bin/lpr file.txt
> ?)
>
> Did you also have a look at
> http://linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=hl1250&fromprinter=Brother-HL-1230
> ?
I think you might be lucky: they have got a .ppd file there for
you (Brother-HL-1230-hl1250.ppd ). Download it, put it into
/usr/local/share/cups/model/
restart cups by
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd restart
and try setup on http://localhost:631
Regards,
Uli.
>> malcolm
>>
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