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Originally Posted by TWF
Has anyone got the Brother MFC 5440 network printer to work in Mandriva? Thanks.
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Your model may differ, but the MFC-8840DN was about as simple as plugging it in. It obtained its IP address by DHCP, and nmap shows it runs lots of services out of the box.
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Starting nmap 3.50 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-06-23 14:58 EDT
Interesting ports on brother (192.168.3.50):
(The 1650 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp open ftp
23/tcp open telnet
25/tcp open smtp
80/tcp open http
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
515/tcp open printer
631/tcp open ipp
8080/tcp open http-proxy
9100/tcp open jetdirect
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 3.827 seconds
So you can ftp, upload (put) a file, and it gets printed. PostScript or plain ASCII text.
Or telnet to :9100 (jetdirect) and paste the file.
Surf HTTP to the printer to configure it.
Cups could talk IPP.
The printer also acts (:515) like a Unix host running lpd.
For regular use set it up in cups as "Generic Postscript", and printing from any applications I tried works fine.
Not sure if using a "driver" would buy me anything else? Maybe I could get duplex to work.
Quigi
