On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 20:03:14 +0200, Jonathan Drews wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:36:03AM -0700, BSD user wrote: > > > > > > On 7/16/19 4:13 AM, Jonathan Drews wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 08:06:20AM +0000, Roderick wrote: > > > > > > At this point, I am going to look for another printer that is more > > > OpenBSD friendly. My Desjet 6940 is pretty old and the cartridges > > > cost a lot (> USD $120.00) > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > Jonathan > > > > > > > I may just be a luddite, but after wasting multiple days messing around > > with cups, ghostscript, hplip et al, I decided it was just easier to > > print everything via postscript. > > > . > . > . > > This solution doesn't offer the convenience of automagically converting > > arbitrary file formats to PCL or whatever the printer format of the day > > is, but it works for me without having to have add a ridiculous number > > of packages and configs. > > > > Thanks Roderick: > > I got to this instruction in the CUPS Readme: > > > *** WARNING *** > ulpt(4) needs to be disabled in the kernel (see config(8)) or the printer > will not be available to libusb. > > > I read the manpage for config (8) and I can't seem to find the appropriate > configuration file in /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile. I'll have to > read up on compiling the kernel and modifying it's configuration file. > Once again thanks for all the generous help form you guys.
How about: config -ef /bsd <<EOF disable ulpt quit EOF Dunno if that still works, though, I networked my printer. Best regards Robert
