On 15/09/2015 21:53, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 09/15/2015 01:47 PM, james wrote: >> <thelma <at> sys-concept.com> writes: >> >> >> >>> Lately I've installed Fedora core on my old eeepc and I very impressed >>> with the printer installation. Fedora automatically recognized my >>> Brother HL-5730 printer and installed printer driver for it. >> >> I have a brother J6710-DW printer that I have tried, unsuccessfully >> in the past to set up on Gentoo. Brother is borked on Gentoo. Don't believe >> me read the recent post from Patrick Lauer on planet.gentoo.org. Patrick >> offer up a simplified way that he was able to get his brother printer >> running via IPP and a postscript filter. >> >> >>> I wish Gentoo would be able to do it as well some day. >> >> Yea, I almost had mine working but I just got tired of hacking >> away at it. It would be more straightforward to take an rpm or deb >> package and use it. Folks have made specific models work, but, it >> is a bit of work. >> >> 'eix -R brother' shows quite a few overlays (ebuilds) that cover >> a range of brother printers, should you desire to hack that route. > > > To install brother printer just follow these steps from Gentoo forum: > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-909052-highlight-brother.html
Or just don't install Brother printers. They are utter crap and why anyone gives them desk space is beyond me. It's not like they are expensive either, toss 'em and buy something real. Recent Samsung, Epson and everything supported by hplip all work great. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
