Thomas Mueller wrote: > I have printer, HP_LaserJet_Professional_M1212nf_MFP, seem to have set > it up with cups [...] > > lpr: lp: unknown printer
Patrick Hess responded: > Be aware that after installing CUPS you will find two incompatible lpr > binaries on your system: /usr/bin/lpr, which belongs to the base system, > and /usr/local/bin/lpr, the one that comes with CUPS. Unless you changed > your $PATH to include /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin, you are still > calling /usr/bin/lpr (use "which lpr" to confirm this). The same goes > for /usr/bin/lp vs. /usr/local/bin/lp. > So just try using the full path for /usr/local/bin/lpr and see if that > does the trick. > Patrick I tried that, got some more sign of life, but still no joy: But it still seems that /usr/local/sbin and /usr/local/bin in FreeBSD, or /usr/pkg/sbin and /usr/pkg/bin in NetBSD, should properly be at the front of the path, unless one wants to put $HOME/bin or the like in front of that. I get Idle: Filter failed on http://localhost:631 status page. It looks like cups and the printer are finding every silly excuse for refusing to work. I can't really say if Linux would work better. Only other way is seeing if the Windows way works in wine. Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
