Brother 1440 printer on Fedora Core 4
Eric Beversluis
econophil at charter.net
Tue Mar 14 14:37:48 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 09:32 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote:
> Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > Help! I need my printer (Brother 1440). I've already spent two days
> > trying to get it up. I've learned a good bit about how printing works on
> > Linux, but haven't had success. (This printer always ran automatically
> > with my old Mandrake 10.1 install.)
> >
> > I've just installed Core 4 on a Sony PCG-SRX77. (I also installed
> > (server installation) on a Dell OptiPlex, but I haven't tried to get the
> > printer going there yet.)
> >
> > Brother has two drivers, one for lpd and one as a
> > "cupswrapper" (whatever that is). The lpd rpm needs to be installed
> > before the cupswrapper rpm. When I tried to install the lpd rpm I got
> > this error message:
> >
> > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.48389: line 2: /etc/init.d/lpd: No such file or
> > directory
> > error: %post(hl1440lpr-1.1.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status
> > 127
>
> Before installing the lpd driver you need to link lpd to cups in
> /etc/init.d. Then install the lpd driver. Then install the
> cups driver.
But as nearly as I can tell, lpd isn't there anywhere (it doesn't show
up in 'ps -e' either. I'm confused.
>
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