Hello.


There are a lot of experts and maybe one of you had crossed the same 
problem as I am having now.

I had HP845C USB connected to DragonFly 1.2.6 which worked fine together 
using CUPS.

Now I upgraded to Brother HL-2030 and I got stuck with configuration.
My printer is recognised by kernel:

ulpt0: Brother HL-2030 series, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1
ulpt0: using bi-directional mode

...but I can not get it to spit out any page.

# cat /etc/fstab > /dev/ulpt0
does exactly nothing, not even a blink of the Ready light on the printer.

I have configured CUPS with instructions from linuxprinting.org for 
HL-1250, nothing.
Even tried with instructions for the whole procedure for LPR & CUPS from 
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/lpr_install.html 
and then CUPS wrapper etc. etc...nothing.

It creates device /dev/usblp0 -> /dev/usb/lp0.
The cat /etc/fstab > /dev/usblp0 wakes up the printer, but nothing else 
happens. Using printer in linux X.org with CUPS works like a charm.

I am aware that noone nowhere speaks about this printer being supported 
by BSD (except MAX OS X), but I was thinking if it works with cups and 
is recognised by kernel...it should work?

Is there someone who can help me or even point me to the more 
aproppriate list?

Thank you.


Regards,
Tomas
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Sorry for posting to myself.

Maybe my solution will help someone else too.

The problem was solved imediately after I forced USB to 1.1 instead of 
2.0 (printer is USB 2.0, but 1.1 compatible). Now it is (and me too) 
happy with 1.1.

Regards,
Tomas
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I'm glad your problem is solved.  Can you explain exactly
how you 'forced' it?  I think this may help me fix a similar
problem on my wife's linux machine.

Thanks!
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Well, luckily I have a BIOS which let's me choose what kind of USB I 
want (1.1 or 1.1+2.0) so I just chose 1.1 and it works.

If you have more USBs on your wife's machine try if maybe one of them 
isn't 2.0.

Maybe another solution is to install PCI (or PCMCIA) USB 1.1 card into it.

If you have possibility try your gadget on some other (older) machine 
first not to have extra costs if it still doesn't work.

Regards,
Tomas


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