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On 09/15/2015 01:47 PM, james wrote: |
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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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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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Thelma |
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