On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 20:19:33 -0400, Jape Person wrote: > On 08/04/2017 06:39 PM, Brian wrote: > > It's sad, isn't it? There must be enough Linux / Unix folks using brother > printers to make it worth Brother's trouble to provide a utility for this. I > guess most environments have either Windows or Mac available, but mine > didn't until I got the little NUC. $300 so I can do firmware upgrades. > > Making lemonade, I'll probably try to play some old games on the little box. > There's always a silver lining.
I wonder whether wine would help (with installing the firmware, I mean). > >So "CreateIPPPrinterQueues No" makes the ptinter invisible? > > As it turned out, I didn't have to edit the config file. Turning off WiFi > Direct made the driverless printer invisible. Is it possible that Brother is > using "WiFi Direct" as a synonym for Bonjour? > > I'm unschooled on this stuff, so forgive if the question is dumb! Bonjour works on cabled and wireless networks, WiFi Direct is wireless only. I also thought WiFi Direct did not use Bonjour. Mystifying. You could try activating and de-activating Bonjour on the printer and looking for the printer in the output of 'avahi-browse -art', You'll need the avahi-utils package. -- Brian.