On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > Obtaining a driver from Brother's support site as a .deb file, I tried to > install it with dpkg: > > root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/Download/BrotherPrinterDriver# dpkg -i > hl3170cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb As the name says, that's an LPR driver.
Brother does not make actual drivers for CUPS, only ones for LPR plus a hack to make LPR drivers work in CUPS! 1: If you're using an i386 system, you're good to go; if you're using amd64, enable 32 bit compatibility with (as superuser) `dpkg --add-architecture i386 && aptitude update && aptitude install libstdc++6:i386`; if you're using any other architecture, give up! 2: Download both drivers from http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl3170cdw_all&os=128 3: Install "cups-daemon" (the actual print server) and "cups-bsd" (backwards compatibility with LPR command line tools) 4: Make sure your printer is connected and ready, install the LPR driver 5: Install the CUPS driver 6: If all went fine, you should have the printer already configured (you may want to visit localhost:631 with a browser to set paper size, etc)! _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
