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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How does a printserver work ... Date: 30 Oct 1996 08:48:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5574pa$9li@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <pg918qzy0e.fsf@theta.microchip.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.protocols.tcp-ip:48943 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30228 pancholi@theta.Microchip.COM (Vineet Pancholi) wrote: > I also have a HP 4ML printer, now I wish to connect its parallel port > to my hub, with a ip address. The eventual goal is to print to a > network printer. Of course, you cannot connect the `parallel port to the hub'. ;-) You've got basically two options: get an HP JetDirect card, this provides your printer with an ethernet interface that can speak (among other protocols) lpd. The other option is to hook up the printer to the parallel port, and use lpd there. There's an entire handbook section devoted to printing under FreeBSD, so go and read it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)