Re: FreeBSD ?

On Monday 07 February 2005 15:07, Erwan David wrote:
> 	Did someone try to use hplip uneder FreeBSD, or another BSD ?
>
> What was the result ?

I tried it with the first release. It didn't compile out of the box 
(it actually looked for some linux headers... so I didn't look any 
deeper...). Actually I wanted to get it compiled on FreeBSD, but 
never found the time to do it (and since the hack for hpoj I posted 
some months ago worked with my PSC 1210 (for scanning) I didn't have 
so much pressure...).

And just these days I finally exchanged my PSC 1210 with an Epson 
printer (Epson Stylus Photo R200) and scanner (Epson Perfection 3170)  
[the HP ScanJet 2400 didn't work with SANE at all, I had already 
bought the ScanJet and was completely surprised that it wasn't 
supported, so I exchanged it with the Epson devices].

But that shouldn't discourage anyone here. I'm very glad that at least 
some people at HP work on drivers for their devices, but it's a bit 
of a shame that not all their devices are supported out of the box... 
CUPS and SANE provide so nice interfaces...

So please please please, provide drivers "officially" for all your 
devices for Linux/FreeBSD/... [read: for CUPS and SANE] out of the 
box, on the driver CD and it should be visible on the device package.

And I would very much like to see hplip work on FreeBSD!

Regards,
-- 
Raphael Langerhorst, JID: [email protected]
G System, The Evolving Universe - http://www.g-system.at


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