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<thelma <at> sys-concept.com> writes: |
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> Lately I've installed Fedora core on my old eeepc and I very impressed |
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> with the printer installation. Fedora automatically recognized my |
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> Brother HL-5730 printer and installed printer driver for it. |
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I have a brother J6710-DW printer that I have tried, unsuccessfully |
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in the past to set up on Gentoo. Brother is borked on Gentoo. Don't believe |
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me read the recent post from Patrick Lauer on planet.gentoo.org. Patrick |
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offer up a simplified way that he was able to get his brother printer |
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running via IPP and a postscript filter. |
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> I wish Gentoo would be able to do it as well some day. |
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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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hth, |
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James |
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