On 09/15/2015 01:47 PM, james wrote: > <thelma <at> sys-concept.com> writes: > > > >> Lately I've installed Fedora core on my old eeepc and I very impressed >> with the printer installation. Fedora automatically recognized my >> Brother HL-5730 printer and installed printer driver for it. > > I have a brother J6710-DW printer that I have tried, unsuccessfully > in the past to set up on Gentoo. Brother is borked on Gentoo. Don't believe > me read the recent post from Patrick Lauer on planet.gentoo.org. Patrick > offer up a simplified way that he was able to get his brother printer > running via IPP and a postscript filter. > > >> I wish Gentoo would be able to do it as well some day. > > Yea, I almost had mine working but I just got tired of hacking > away at it. It would be more straightforward to take an rpm or deb > package and use it. Folks have made specific models work, but, it > is a bit of work. > > 'eix -R brother' shows quite a few overlays (ebuilds) that cover > a range of brother printers, should you desire to hack that route.
To install brother printer just follow these steps from Gentoo forum: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-909052-highlight-brother.html Thelma
