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On 15/09/2015 21:53, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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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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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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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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