How to Install Brother Printers and Scanners
Alright... tell me, if it works over USB but not over WLAN, how does that help? Particularly given that Mom and I bought the printer specifically to be a whole-house network printer... 
If I understand it a little better... maybe I can be convinced
to drag out the 'active' cable (it has a stupid power-hogging signal booster in it) to see if the dang thing works...
If I understand it a little better... maybe I can be convinced
to drag out the 'active' cable (it has a stupid power-hogging signal booster in it) to see if the dang thing works...It guarantees that you have the driver installed correctly. It then narrows the problem down to a networking issue.starhawk wrote:Alright... tell me, if it works over USB but not over WLAN, how does that help?
You can buy a USB printer cable for $1. Why complicate the issue with a non-standard cable?
I have plenty of standard cables that won't go the distance... literally. They're not long enough.
...and actually, come to think of it, that 'active' cable won't work. It's an extension... male 'a' to female 'a'. Printer takes a male 'b'.
Oh well, back to square one.
EDIT: oh, and I actually don't have the money to buy even a $1 cable right now. Not kidding, sadly.
...and actually, come to think of it, that 'active' cable won't work. It's an extension... male 'a' to female 'a'. Printer takes a male 'b'.
Oh well, back to square one.
EDIT: oh, and I actually don't have the money to buy even a $1 cable right now. Not kidding, sadly.
Hey, rc, I might be able to do this after all...
Mom used to have a Canon multifunction printer / scanner / copier / fax / Broadway stage (seriously, that thing is very big and very heavy) in here, about where that dang Brother is now. She insisted on it being USB connected to her computer at the time for reasons I neither recall nor care to. There's a bunch of boxes and crap left over from that era on the floor here (yay cluttertastic living spaces... not!) and I dug around and found what has to be about the world's longest USB printer cable. I'm not saying it works... I'm saying it may be long enough... if not, I've got a little extension cord that may help out as well. (Thankfully not an 'active' one -- IIRC, it came with a Kodak card reader that I gave away a few weeks ago. Kept the cord tho.)
Tell me how to do this and I'll see what I can arrange here.
Mom used to have a Canon multifunction printer / scanner / copier / fax / Broadway stage (seriously, that thing is very big and very heavy) in here, about where that dang Brother is now. She insisted on it being USB connected to her computer at the time for reasons I neither recall nor care to. There's a bunch of boxes and crap left over from that era on the floor here (yay cluttertastic living spaces... not!) and I dug around and found what has to be about the world's longest USB printer cable. I'm not saying it works... I'm saying it may be long enough... if not, I've got a little extension cord that may help out as well. (Thankfully not an 'active' one -- IIRC, it came with a Kodak card reader that I gave away a few weeks ago. Kept the cord tho.)
Tell me how to do this and I'll see what I can arrange here.
Seriously... I know how to put the cable in, of course, but I'm a little confused after that. Do I alter the current printer install (to what?)? or do I install a new printer?
Further, there are two identically-named drivers that show up natively in CUPS, and there's a third option of manually installing from /opt/brother/.../[...].ppd -- and I don't know which to try first, second, and third.
...so a little guidance here would be deeply appreciated.
Further, there are two identically-named drivers that show up natively in CUPS, and there's a third option of manually installing from /opt/brother/.../[...].ppd -- and I don't know which to try first, second, and third.
...so a little guidance here would be deeply appreciated.
This is a standard USB install - plug in the printer and let CUPS auto-detect it. If you are seeing two printers, it may be that CUPS detects it both as the direct USB device and as the networked device (if its WiFi is still turned on).
I don't remember how CUPS 1.3 handles this, but you should be able to tell one from the other.
I don't remember how CUPS 1.3 handles this, but you should be able to tell one from the other.
I'm referring to what you see in the attached.
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Why do you need a reply? I told you what to do above.
This duplication of models names should not be a surprise. It was also present when you previously set up the printer using IP4CUPS. It comes from the Debian driver packages, which put their PPD files in two different locations.
BTW, why is your Brother section so empty? All standard Puppies come with the Gutenprint driver which supports a large collection of Brother models.
By insisting on using Carolina, you are making this situation more frustrating for everyone. This really isn't a Brother printer problem - it's a Carolina problem. They have their own forum section.
This duplication of models names should not be a surprise. It was also present when you previously set up the printer using IP4CUPS. It comes from the Debian driver packages, which put their PPD files in two different locations.
BTW, why is your Brother section so empty? All standard Puppies come with the Gutenprint driver which supports a large collection of Brother models.
By insisting on using Carolina, you are making this situation more frustrating for everyone. This really isn't a Brother printer problem - it's a Carolina problem. They have their own forum section.
How? You have already seen the printer work correctly when you used IP4CUPS. Then something changed in your Carolina setup and it stopped working, even through USB.
This is now a problem for the Carolina team. It's their printing system.
BTW, do you have that idiotic printer-scanner SFS package installed?
This is now a problem for the Carolina team. It's their printing system.
BTW, do you have that idiotic printer-scanner SFS package installed?