[PLUG] Brother HL-2240D ppd file?

Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wevl at pacifier.com
Thu Oct 27 04:00:14 UTC 2011


Thanks so much Terry. I am recompiling a kernel right now and will 
probably try it tomorrow.
Wayne
Terry Griffin wrote:
> 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
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