can not print from mozilla....

[nuttron]

or opera , or netscape for that matter ...running freebsd-5.1....a usb cannonS200 (if i had known!!)..i got it to print using cups(gimp-print driver s450,after a bit of tweaking, prints text o.k.)
The weird part is i can print if i open a file on the desktop for instance something i did in kword or other text editor , but if i try to print from a terminal i get =lp=unknown printer ...if i do lpq in terminal i get = printer not found.

I got the same printer running in slackware-9.0 ,no problem (using cups).

i think freebsd has lprng as the default like slackware i think...cannot figure it out...i googled...no dice ,i posted on the freebsd forum ,but there is not much trafic there....oh yes i went in the kde print manager as root and made sure the printer using cups(my only printer) was the default.thank you...nuttron

[JohnT]

Try entering the complete path to the command.

[nuttron]

thank you johnt , i screwed up enough on this system(my fault i like to tinker),i had tried the full path but i had also previously deleted the default printer in KDE,as root ,nothing less,which had slipped my mind by the way.

nothing dramatic as i have slack to fall back on.

I installed the 4.9 stable over the previous 5.1 ,but it could not initialyse my ethernet card (Via Rhine)...so i gave up....i had gotten a set of cd's from a magazine so i gave Fedora a try ,but thanks no thanks ,after the simplicity of slack i could not come to like r.h.....so i decided to use that partition for slackware(maybe try to back up my system there,in case i srew up again)....

I have another machine downstairs here and i am considering installing FreeBSD-5.2 ...(the one thing i do not like about FreeBSD is the time that it takes to install ports..phew...too much.what an exciting life i lead...thanks again
nuttron

[JohnT]

.(the one thing i do not like about FreeBSD is the time that it takes to install ports..phew...too much.

Actually it seems as if it takes longer to find one to install from the huge collection, than the actual installation it self.

[j79zlr]

ala FreeBSD handbook

Yet another way to find a particular port is by using the ports collection's built-in search mechanism. To use the search feature, you will need to be in the /usr/ports directory. Once in that directory, run make search name=program-name where program-name is the name of the program you want to find.


For more in-depth searching you can also use make search key=string where string is some text to search for. This searches port names, comments, descriptions and dependencies and can be used to find ports which relate to a particular subject if you don't know the name of the program you are looking for.

[JohnT]

Yet another way to find a particular port


Finding a particular one has never been my problem...its just perusing the selctions to see what's available. Kinda like digging around in an old attic.:p