Bug#698060: all better

Brian, OdyX-- Thanks for your help, the printer got better. Sadly, I don't know exactly what changed, so I can't document what fixed the problem. One thing that may have poked things into success is I pm-suspend my machine every night. That may have disturbed some software package in the right

Bug#698060: not sure

Brian, OdyY-- I should start with saying I'm a hardware guy working in the areas of DSP and VLSI. Software higher than system calls and library functions just confuses me, massively parallel hardware is fun. I miss the days of `cat file /dev/lp`. It looks like bug

Bug#698060: cups fails to recognize brother HL-2040 usb printer

Package: cups Version: 1.5.3-2.12 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I did a complete wipe and install with Wheezy and cups doesn't recognize nor auto-install my Brother HL-2040. I did a complete wipe and install with Squeeze and it worked great (although it configured as a HL-2060). I hope

Bug#698060: HL-2040 more info

OdyX-- Thanks for your very quick response. --mark $ /bin/ls -al /usr/lib/cups/backend total 528 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 12 14:59 . drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jan 12 14:42 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7250 Jul 5 2012 beh -rwxr--r-- 3 root root 17808 Dec 30 08:10 dnssd -rwxr-xr-x

Bug#698060: more output

OdyX-- I figured it was specific to my printer, anything else would have been seen by a lot of people. Thanks again. --mark # /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb DEBUG: list_devices DEBUG: libusb_get_device_list=7 DEBUG2: Printer found with device ID: MFG:Brother;CMD:PJL,HBP;MDL:HL-2040

Bug#698060:

Brian-- The command: $ dpkg -l | grep system-config-printer-udev does in fact return nothing. A quick look in aptitude shows that the package does exist but is not installed. Not that I know what I'm doing, but I installed it anyway and tried the localhost:631 thing but didn't see any