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I cannot find any working drivers for the printer - Brother HL-2242D

Hello, I am running Slackware 13.37 64.
All I can find for my printer, the HL-2242D, is .rpm and .deb binaries from the Brother webpage. After several Google searches I cannot find any ppd drivers propriety or open source. I am using CUPS. Is there a way to get these binaries to work in Slackware ( I have tried rpm2tgz, with no success)? Or am I stuck with a fancy paperweight?

Quote:

Originally Posted by vonqon (Post 4714800)

I downloaded the current cupswrapperHL2242D-2.0.4-2.i386.deb from the brother website and extracted the package. Searched for ppd in the scripts. And then I found the PPD file within the script cupswrapperHL2242D-2.0.4.

Code:

dpkg-deb --extract cupswrapperHL2242D-2.0.4-2.i386.deb brother-printer

cd brother-printer

grep -ri 'ppd' *

#found instances of ppd in ./usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2242D/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2242D-2.0.4

vim ./usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2242D/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2242D-2.0.4

I then pulled out the PPD code and it is attached to this post as HL2242D.txt. Simply rename HL2242D.txt to HL2242D.ppd and you'll have your PPD file.

SAM

Thank you.

Much appreciated.