Re: [gentoo-user] Brother HL-L6200DW

[thelma]

On 4/6/22 19:10, tastytea wrote:

On 2022-04-06 19:05-0600 the...@sys-concept.com wrote:


On 4/6/22 16:43, P Levine wrote:

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 3:40 PM mailto:the...@sys-concept.com>> wrote:

 Does anybody have this printer?

 Is there a driver in overlay to setup this printer?

 Installing those drivers from rpm and cupswrapper is tiring.

I have a different brother printer but I used an ebuild from
brother-overlay
 as a
template. The closest to your printer would likely be
brother-hll8350cdw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild
.
Rename to brother-hl6200dw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild. Change the parts of
SRC_URI to match the download URI used to download the driver(s)
from the Brother website. Change instances of "hll8350cdw" to
"hll6200dw".


This is a good idea. I've the files (modified them):
brother-hl6200dw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild and metadata.xml

My only question is which directory to put them in? I think:
/usr/local/portage/(something)


That's described in
. In short:
eselect repository create 



I just tired generic brother printer and it works perfectly.
emerge --ask net-print/brother-genml1-bin
 
No need to complicate installation of specific driver.

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother HL-L6200DW

[tastytea]

On 2022-04-06 19:05-0600 the...@sys-concept.com wrote:

> On 4/6/22 16:43, P Levine wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 3:40 PM  > > wrote:
> > 
> > Does anybody have this printer?
> > 
> > Is there a driver in overlay to setup this printer?
> > 
> > Installing those drivers from rpm and cupswrapper is tiring.
> > 
> > I have a different brother printer but I used an ebuild from
> > brother-overlay
> >  as a
> > template. The closest to your printer would likely be
> > brother-hll8350cdw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild
> > .
> > Rename to brother-hl6200dw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild. Change the parts of
> > SRC_URI to match the download URI used to download the driver(s)
> > from the Brother website. Change instances of "hll8350cdw" to
> > "hll6200dw".  
> 
> This is a good idea. I've the files (modified them):
> brother-hl6200dw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild and metadata.xml
> 
> My only question is which directory to put them in? I think:
> /usr/local/portage/(something)

That's described in
. In short:
eselect repository create 

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother HL-L6200DW

[thelma]

On 4/6/22 16:43, P Levine wrote:

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 3:40 PM mailto:the...@sys-concept.com>> wrote:

Does anybody have this printer?

Is there a driver in overlay to setup this printer?

Installing those drivers from rpm and cupswrapper is tiring.

I have a different brother printer but I used an ebuild from brother-overlay 
 as a template.
The closest to your printer would likely be brother-hll8350cdw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild 
.
 Rename to brother-hl6200dw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild. Change the parts of SRC_URI to match the download URI 
used to download the driver(s) from the Brother website. Change instances of "hll8350cdw" to 
"hll6200dw".


This is a good idea. I've the files (modified them):  
brother-hl6200dw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild and metadata.xml

My only question is which directory to put them in? I think:
/usr/local/portage/(something)

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother HL-L6200DW

[P Levine]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 3:40 PM  wrote:

> Does anybody have this printer?
>
> Is there a driver in overlay to setup this printer?
>
> Installing those drivers from rpm and cupswrapper is tiring.
>
I have a different brother printer but I used an ebuild from brother-overlay
 as a template.
The closest to your printer would likely be
brother-hll8350cdw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild
.
Rename to brother-hl6200dw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild. Change the parts of SRC_URI
to match the download URI used to download the driver(s) from the Brother
website. Change instances of "hll8350cdw" to "hll6200dw".

[gentoo-user] Brother HL-L6200DW

[thelma]

Does anybody have this printer?

Is there a driver in overlay to setup this printer?

Installing those drivers from rpm and cupswrapper is tiring.