On 3/23/06, lmyho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have a Brother HL5040 printer, and I have downloaded it driver for > linux/debian > system from Brother's website, it is a .deb pkg file. > > However the apt-get program couldn't find this driver pkg to install it, even > when I > gave a full path for the location of the pkg. > > Chris suggested to run dpkg -i at location of the pkg to install it, I did > and the > pkg was installed,:) however it didn't work right. the effect is that the > printer > will print but print out only empty papers and will not stop such horrible > printing > until I turn its power off! :(( It still not working.....:((((( > > Could anyone tell me what I can do to install this Brother HL5040 printer > onto my > debian system? Or where can I find the right or compitable driver (if it's > driver > problem) for it to install? THANKS A LOT!!!
I've been a recipient of new Brother printers (they've been using our company as test-bed of sorts as our company has Linux from the president down to all employees) and they work just well with the default auto-detection. I didn't try the online PPD's that Brother provided. I -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
