[PLUG] Brother HL-2240D ppd file?

[Terry Griffin]

On Wednesday 26 October 2011 7:33:03 pm Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Terry:
> 
> Terry Griffin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 October 2011 4:26:05 pm Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote:
> >> Much of the Linux Foundation web site is not operational, the database,
> >> drivers... Does anyone have a ppd file for Brother HL-2240D?
> >> Wayne
> >
> > Did you check brother.com support site?
> 
> Yes I did. I see that they have both a cupswrapper and a LPR driver in
> both debian and it's derivatives and Red Hat and derivatives in .rpm. I
> am using Slackware and can convert .rpms to Slackware's tgz format with
> rpm2tgz. Do I install both drivers, or just one. Do the drivers work
> through CUPS somehow??
> Wayne
> 
> 

Yes you need to install both, and yes it works through cups.

I installed from RPMs. The cupswrapper package configured and restarted the 
cups service.

As part of the automatic configuration the install script set up a new printer 
assuming a local USB connection, which unfortunately was incorrect in my case. 
I'm using the WLAN interface for my printer. So I had to use the printer admin 
tool to delete the USB printer and add a network printer.

Terry