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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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>>> 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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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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