I recently bought a Brother MFC-7420 and I'm trying to get it to work with my gentoo linux system.
Brother provides a lpr driver, a sane driver, and a cupswrapper driver, none of which I can get to work. I have successfully converted the provided .deb / .rpm packages to tar.gz and extracted them, looked at the install/configure shell prints, extracted the fliters and ppds (for printer drivers) and put them in the right place, or at least what I believe to be the right place. Unfortunately, when trying to configure kprinter, as root, I get an error to the effect of Invalid Format when trying to read the ppd. Does anyone have experience with this printer, or any of the brother printers (they seem to have a mostly unified interface) on gentoo? I'd have to have to switch to debian just to get this to work. ;) Also, what information would be helpful for any that want to help me troubleshoot this? This has been stymieing me for a week, and I'd really like to get it fixed ASAP (I have having to go to kinkos to print). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
