This is not more than thinking out loud, but I seem to have seen significant reference handling of sane and multi function devices as I was doing an aptitude dist-upgrade on my netbook (from amd64 squeeze to wheezy)
I wonder if it would be worth while plying with some spare hardware? I am tied up the next few days and a little more.(out of cell phone and email range). But anyone else have the hardware running wheezy or similar? Only glitch is my screen is too small to navigate programs so I was going to look at a simpler window manager than Gnome? Mel On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 17:16 -0700, Ralph Boland wrote: > I recently purchased a Brother DCP-7065DN printer. > I got it work fairly quickly with a Windows machine Kin loaned me with > the data going through my router. > But I have not been able to run it from my Ubuntu 11.04 machine. > > I first tried to download the network driver from the Brother web site > and followed > the instructions there but this didn't work. > > I then discovered the printer installation facility on Ubuntu and tried that. > Unfortunately my printer is not listed with that facility so I tried the > closest > printer: DCP-7045DN. > The printer was able to recognize that my computer was sending it something > but all I got were a seemingly infinite list of blank pages printed. > I was still going through my router. > I eventually gave up on getting this to work and went back to the > Brother web site > and tried downloading again. > > I downloaded the driver to run with lpr (with usb plug connected > directly to printer) and ran the command: > > dpkg -i --force-all printername.deb > > This seemed to work but at the end I got the message: > > start: Unknown job lpd > > I assumed I needed to start the printer deamon and didn't know how to > so I did a restart. > Still no luck. I eventually ran: > > ps -alx | grep lpd > > and got the line: > > 0 1000 2892 2833 20 0 4152 848 pipe_w S+ pts/2 0:00 > grep --color=auto lpd > > Which I assume to be my grep command. > > I am still assuming that the printer daemon needs to be started somehow. > > The /etc/printcap file is: > > # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the > # /etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file > # will be lost. > Brother-DCP-7065DN|Brother DCP-7065DN:rm=andromeda:rp=Brother-DCP-7065DN: > > > If, for a small file junk, I run: > lpr junk > > and then run lpq I get > > Brother-DCP-7065DN is not ready > Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size > 1st rocky 22 junk 1024 bytes > > Note that I tried both the router route and the usb cable route but > got the same result each > time. > > Searching the Internet told a lot of things about lpd > but not how to get the printer daemon running. > > Can anyone tell me what I am missing and what I should do? > > Warning some of the information above is from memory so there could be minor > errors. > > > Thanks > > Ralph (Rocky) Boalnd > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
