On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:26:23PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:44:03PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:36:35PM CET, Torfinn Ingolfsen > > <torfinn.ingolf...@broadpark.no> said: > > > On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:14:22 +0100 > > > Harald Weis <ha...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a way to install the SCX-4200 printer on a FreeBSD box ? > > > > The printer is delivered with the install software required for Linux. > > > > And CUPS does not seem to "know" it. > > It is not always sufficient. My Brother DCP-540 CN is said to work > > perfectly, but only with brother binary linux drivers, under linux. I > > did not find any way to make it work under freeBSD. > > This should be a FAQ: do yourself a favor and get a printer that > supports postscript. It will work with little effort with most > UNIX-based program (because they usually support postscript output) and > with most spoolers.
Try to install the cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsomatic-ppd and foomatic-db ports and take a look at this link: http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?31,302,320,quote=1 -- Alex -- alex-goncha...@comcast.net -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
