gene heskett writes: > I give up, the driverless printer cups installs automaticaly cannot be > deleted and has > taken over from the brother drivers that work, preventing me from using > the printer at all. > > So how do I disable the driverless junk? Is that a separate package that > is removable? > cups doesn't even offer to disable this non-working garbage. > Thanks for any good clues. >
Hi Gene. If its a network connected printer, then the driverless connection will be PROBABLY default to PCL5e/PCL6, (or maybe ipp,) which the modern Brother printers support. Older Brother printers do not support PCL and/or ipp, and require a specific Brother printer set of drivers for network connectivity. If its an older printer, you might attempt a re-install of the Brother printer drivers, and cups(1) SHOULD remove any existing PCL/ipp drivers during installation, (famous last words.) BTW, x86_64-linux-gnu has to be installed on my machines for the the Brother printer drivers to compile. /etc/cups/ppd/* and/or /usr/local/Brother/* and/or /opt/Brother/* may provide some information. John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/