Hello Florian, On 9/22/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 19:26:13 +1000, Robert Parker wrote: > > I need a driver for a Brother Laser printer model HL-2040. The system > > is an AMD 64 bit box and the debs provided by Brother are for i386 and > > will not install on this 64 bit system. They have released the source > > code for the driver under the GPL and I have downloaded it. For this > > printer there is a shell script and also a C program to generate a > > CUPS wrapper. > > > > When I run the shell script it exits with the folowing error: > > > > -- Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Fri Sep 21 19:15:58 2007 ... > > localhost cupsd: Unable to read configuration file > > '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting! > > Does the cupsd.conf file exist, is it readable? Do you have cupsys > installed at all?
What I have is whatever came on CD1 using the Gnome. The printer configuration tool uses cupsys by default. Unfortunately Brother is not in its list of supported printers at all. I'm a little vague because the installation is at a friends place 2 hours away by train. > > > Please advise what I must do to compile and install this stuff. > > > > I have had this printer working on a Kubuntu 7.04 system using the > > driver for the HL-2060 (iirc) which was available on the installation > > cd. I have abandoned the Kubuntu system in favour of Debian Lenny for > > other reasons. So advice on getting and installing the Kubuntu driver > > would help also. > > Debian has several PPD files for the HL-2060 included in the > "foomatic-filters-ppds" package: > > $ dpkg -L foomatic-filters-ppds | grep Brother-HL-2060 | sed 's/.*\///' > Brother-HL-2060-Postscript.ppd.gz > Brother-HL-2060-hl1250.ppd.gz > Brother-HL-2060-lj4dith.ppd.gz > Brother-HL-2060-lj5gray.ppd.gz > Brother-HL-2060-ljet4.ppd.gz > Brother-HL-2060-pxlmono.ppd.gz > > If you install thias package you should be able to select these drivers > when you add your printer using the CUPS web frontend (or the KDE > printer administration tool). Great, the foomatic version was what I did have working in Kubuntu. > > If none of these drivers works then you can look for the corresponding > files on the Kubuntu CD and try those (in case Kubuntu uses modified > versions). The "add printer" dialog allows you to specify PPD files > directly; it might be necessary to unzip the files with gunzip first. > > Furthermore, a HL-2040 adapted PPD is available here: > http://www.profv.de/brother/ I think I will try that first. Thanks for your help. I will try your suggestions later this week. Regards, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
