Ulpt problems.

[Ramiro Caso]

Here's how far I got (I have a working printer without ulpt and with cups).

On 24/07/2015 07:48, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> On 2015-07-24 05:37, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>>
>>> It seems that one needs ulpt, otherwise the printer isn't found.
>>> So I added to /boot/loader.conf ulpt_load="YES" then the printer is 
>>> found by cups and hplip.
>>>

In order to use a printer with cups and ugen instead of ulpt, you have 
to put some rules in devfs.rules, something like:

add path 'usb*' mode 0770 group cups
add path 'ugen*' mode 0660 group cups
add path 'usb/4.3.*' mode 0660 group cups

Where 4.3 is where the printer appears (just running usbconfig tells you 
where that is). Maybe the rules are redundant, I don't recall anymore, 
but again it worked for me. These rules give cups access to the printer 
device.

>>> But I do not want to use cups so I deinstalled it. Cups can't print 
>>> a testpage so I resorted to lpd.
>>> Which can't print anything, so back to cups that too can't print 
>>> anything. So I'm stuck.
>>
>> The ulpt module is loaded by /etc/devd/usb.conf.  The file says 
>> "please do not edit", and I don't know how those modules are disabled.
>>

You have to create a configuration file for devd under /usr/local/etc. 
What I did is to copy the entries in usb.conf that load the ulpt module 
into this new file, change the priority to something higher than 32, and 
change the action from "kldload -n ulpt" to a trivial action, "true". I 
think there is a better, non hackish thing to do, but it worked for me.

>>> Printer is HP laserjet P2055d
>>
>> That printer supports PostScript directly, so following the LPD setup 
>> in the Handbook is the easiest course.  Deinstall CUPS first, because 
>> it has not-quite-compatible commands with the same names as the real 
>> ones.
>>
>> If the printer has a network interface, that is the preferred 
>> connection.  But USB will work, too.
>>
>>
> Now that it finds the printer it's not printing anything with cups or 
> lpd.
> I'm using apsfilter and lpd. Hplip is deinstalled so is cups. But no 
> cigar.
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