Brother 1440 printer on Fedora Core 4
Eric Beversluis
econophil at charter.net
Tue Mar 14 15:40:47 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 10:34 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote:
> Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Read the directions on the Brother page. That what they state, I did
> it then I removed the link afterwards. Then I loaded up the cups
> driver. I don't know why but that's the way it worked. I'm using
> a HL2070N.
OK. I'll try that. It seems strange to link an non-running and
apparently nonexisting daemon to something. But if it worked for you I'm
game. I'll let you know what happens.
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