Hello, Just wanted to report my experience with Brother network laser printer HL-2070N.
I was working with the drivers that come with Debian (cups?) till around a several weeks ago. Then something broke (apparently in ghostscript) and it stopped working. I tried it yesterday and it is now working too. I am sure an upgrade fixed the problem. Now for the new stuff. I had never tried drivers by Brother (http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/download_prn.html#HL-2070N) so I thought of giving them a try. Installed the lpr driver first. Installation went smoothly: $> sudo dpkg -i brhl2070nlpr-2.0.1-1.i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package brhl2070nlpr. (Reading database ... 250392 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking brhl2070nlpr (from brhl2070nlpr-2.0.1-1.i386.deb) ... Setting up brhl2070nlpr (2.0.1-1) ... Next, installing the cups wrapper gave me a problem: $> sudo dpkg -i cupswrapperHL2070N-2.0.1-2.i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package cupswrapperhl2070n. (Reading database ... 250408 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking cupswrapperhl2070n (from cupswrapperHL2070N-2.0.1-2.i386.deb) ... Setting up cupswrapperhl2070n (2.0.1-2) ... /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2070N-2.0.1: line 63: /usr/share/cups/model/HL2070N.ppd: No such file or directory Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd. cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/cups/model/HL2070N.ppd': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing cupswrapperhl2070n (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: cupswrapperhl2070n $> lpadmin: No such file or directory Turns out a path does not exist in Debian which Brother's driver demands (http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/linux_faq-2.html#143). So making that directory helped: $> sudo mkdir /usr/share/cups/model $> sudo dpkg -P cupswrapperHL2070N . . . $> sudo dpkg -i cupswrapperHL2070N-2.0.1-2.i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package cupswrapperhl2070n. (Reading database ... 250408 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking cupswrapperhl2070n (from cupswrapperHL2070N-2.0.1-2.i386.deb) ... Setting up cupswrapperhl2070n (2.0.1-2) ... Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd. Finally, I went to http://localhost:631 and added the new printer (it was listed as HL2070N driver). - "LPD/LPR Host for Device - lpd://(Your printer's IP address)/binary_p1 for Device URI - Brother for Make/Manufacturer Selection - HL2070N for Model/Driver Selection For some reason, after this step I noticed that was also an HL2070N and a USB printer in the list of installed printer in addition to the one I installed (it had named it "laser"). Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
