On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:16:50 +0100 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon 22 Jun 2015 at 03:50:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > > On 22/06/15 12:48 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > >> > > >i really don't believe this is a driver issue anymore. > > > wow- was I wrong. Turns out it was . > > I think the drivers are put in /opt. yes they are. I can now print from other computers !! It turns out there are two driver packages i had to install, dcp8110dncupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386.deb dcp8110dnlpr-3.0.0-1.i386.deb and I thought I had installed both of them, but I had not installed the lpr package (honest- I thought i had installed both of them). I do still have it connected to the USB port and eventually I need to get it back to ethernet, but that's ok. Now that I know it works I should be able to move it back to ethernet. I hope. So I believe the sum total of my problems were the following: * at one point i figured out that the lo interface was not coming up automatically, meaning i had no localhost. i have a bad feeling i don't have lo coming up auto because i think it causes problems with my network set-up. so i have to investigate, or obviously it's going to break on reboot. * i had a bug, or bugs, in my cupsd.conf (thanks Brian) * i didn't have the brother lpr package installed. * it's possible that there's still a problem with the printer being on ethernet, as of right now it's on USB (thank again Brian for that suggestion). Thanks very much everyone for your help ! Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150622215540.4546e...@cedar.deldotd.com
