On Thursday 27 October 2011 9:59:42 pm Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: > Terry Griffin wrote: > > On Wednesday 26 October 2011 7:33:03 pm Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: > >> Thanks for the reply Terry: > >> > >> Terry Griffin wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 26 October 2011 4:26:05 pm Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: > >>>> Much of the Linux Foundation web site is not operational, the > >>>> database, drivers... Does anyone have a ppd file for Brother HL-2240D? > >>>> Wayne > >>> > >>> Did you check brother.com support site? > >> > >> Yes I did. I see that they have both a cupswrapper and a LPR driver in > >> both debian and it's derivatives and Red Hat and derivatives in .rpm. I > >> am using Slackware and can convert .rpms to Slackware's tgz format with > >> rpm2tgz. Do I install both drivers, or just one. Do the drivers work > >> through CUPS somehow?? > >> Wayne > > > > Yes you need to install both, and yes it works through cups. > > How? > I installed cupswrapperHL2240D-2.0.4 and hl2240dlpr-2.1.1-1.i386. When I > add a printer in CUPS and browse for a driver, the HL2240D is not on the > list. > Wayne >
Well, I don't know what to tell you. Something in the packaging may not be Slackware friendly despite the best efforts of rpm2tgz. It's been something like 15 years since I've even installed Slackware so I'm a little out of date on that distro. For my model of Brother most of the files ended up under /usr/local/Brother/Printer (an odd location to be sure, for any distro) and a PPD file was created in /etc/cups/ppd. You should poke around in /etc/cups and see what's there. Pay particular attention to any files that were modified around the same time you installed the packages. Terry _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
