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Thanks, Ken. I followed the instructions at
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/cups_wrapper_install5.html
and ran into a problem. Per instructions, I had both LPR and cups drivers in the same directory, logged in as root with sudo su, then installed the LPR driver with no error messages. However, the command to install the cupswrapper failed with this output: Selecting previously deselected package cupswrappermfc8660dn. (Reading database ... 114024 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking cupswrappermfc8660dn (from cupswrapperMFC8660DN-2.0.1-2.i386.deb) ... Setting up cupswrappermfc8660dn (2.0.1-2) ... ERROR : Brother LPD filter is not installed. chmod: cannot access `/usr/local/Brother/inf/brMFC8660DNrc': No such file or directory * Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ OK ] I checked permissions with ls -l /usr/local/Brother and got this: total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-15 17:57 cupswrapper drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-15 17:57 filter drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2007-11-15 17:54 inf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-15 17:54 lpd The inf directory has all permissions enabled already, the file the installer wants, brMFC8660DNrc, is there and looks OK, and I was logged in as root, so I don't know what the problem is. Got any advice? Thanks, Steve Ken Bloom wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:29:58 -0800 Steve Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I have a Brother MFC-8860DN printer/fax/scanner network printer connected to my 100-TX ethernet network. Right now everything is setup for DHCP, hosted by a Netgear FR114P router with firewall and works fine w/PCs running Windows XP. I've been using Ubuntu 7.10 since the last installfest, but I still need to get this printer working with it. I tried setting up the printer with the driver that Ubuntu automatically recommended, but it doesn't work. (More details available, but hopefully not needed if the stuff below works out.) Brother recently began supporting Linux at http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html and came out with drivers including several for my printer. Great! But now my Linux novice's ignorance is a problem and the choices begin: * Which package should I try first, the one for Debian (.deb) or for Red Hat / Mandriva (Mandrake) / SuSE (.rpm)?The one for Debian. Ubuntu is derived from Debian, and uses the same package format (.deb). .rpm packages are incompatible, and use a different software to manage the packages.* Brother's CUPS installation instructions at http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/cups_wrapper_install5.html don't use ubuntu's package manager. How do I install this through the Synaptic Package Manager?dpkg is Ubuntu's package manager. Synaptic is just a nice GUI frontend. Once you install the package using dpkg, Synaptic will know about it, and it won't break anything, nor will it defeat the packaging system. Follow their directions and you'll be fine. |
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