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On 16/09/2015 00:49, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> On 09/15/2015 01:58 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 15/09/2015 21:53, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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>>>> Yea, I almost had mine working but I just got tired of hacking |
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>>>> away at it. It would be more straightforward to take an rpm or deb |
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>>>> package and use it. Folks have made specific models work, but, it |
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>>>> is a bit of work. |
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>>>> 'eix -R brother' shows quite a few overlays (ebuilds) that cover |
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>>>> a range of brother printers, should you desire to hack that route. |
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>>> To install brother printer just follow these steps from Gentoo forum: |
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>>> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-909052-highlight-brother.html |
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>> Or just don't install Brother printers. They are utter crap and why |
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>> anyone gives them desk space is beyond me. It's not like they are |
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>> expensive either, toss 'em and buy something real. |
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>> Recent Samsung, Epson and everything supported by hplip all work great. |
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> I had a different experience with Samsung printers. I bought one model |
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> and it had a big bold letters that it works with Linux. |
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> When I try to install printer driver, it was impossible. It came with |
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> some kind of script the relied on an old/obsolete library so it was |
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> impossible to install it. |
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Samsung did that once 10 years ago, and slashdot made them pay with |
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ridicule. |
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Samsung is a very unusual company, they take note of their mistakes and |
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fix them very quickly. Their latest printers do not make that same |
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stupid mistake; mine is a recent colour laser and the cheapest in the |
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range. Doesn't even have a display or keyboard so it creates it's own |
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ad-hoc wifi connection so you can connect and configure in a browser. |
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Once it's on your real network, it all JustWorks(tm) and understands |
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postscript, PCL, SPL and ipp. |
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Drivers? What drivers? It's bog standard PCL so the generic ppds all |
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work. None of this stupid bloody nonsense of the printer implementing a |
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weird once-off control language that only works on one model and is a |
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pain to set up. The value in a printer is fast, accurate printing with |
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cost-effective inks/toners and that doesn't piss off the customer base. |
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Samsung knows this and it's apparent in all there products for years |
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now. Witness their Android phones |
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> On Fedora, script installs brother printer base on Brother source |
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> web-page driver, it works perfectly. On Gentoo it is a manual/painful |
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> setup if you doing it the first time. |
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This has been explained to you several times already. Fedora takes pains |
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to automate such things as-shipped as a convenience for their userbase. |
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It's their contract with them and at the heart of the distro they build. |
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Gentoo does not offer such a distro. Gentoo offers a highly customizable |
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source-based distro where you can get what _you_ want, the price you pay |
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is that you have to do the nice neat user-facing convenience parts |
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yourself - things like drivers, icon themes, choice of wm and more. |
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Gentoo has never, and never will, offer an ebuild like that brother |
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printer by default. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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