brother hl-2040 printer doesn't connect`
 

having trouble with a new brother hl-2040 printer. seems it should work as
there are testimonials to its successful use in the hcl and brother supplies
their own linux drivers.

running through cups i get the info that the job has been successfully printed
but, in fact, nothing has come out of the printer. plenty of paper, that's not
the problem. yes it's plugged in. get the same info when connected to either
the parallel or usb port. yes, i changed the settings when i switched. the
printer seems to be receiving nothing from the computer even though the
computer seems to be detecting the printer.

printer also prints a test page from its own front panel just fine. when it
enters sleep mode, which it does after every test since it thinks it's not
getting anything to print, i press a front panel button to awaken it and each
time i do this it prints a beautiful test page so i know the printer is
capable of some kind of printing. if i send a page to the printer while it
is in sleep mode it does not awaken; another reason i think there is some
kind of communication problem.

any help is much apreciated,
BabaG

never mind. got it working. originally used the mandriva installer which
started installing the driver, then found a dependency, installed it,
then installed the driver. went back and uninstalled everything. brother
site says to install the lpr driver first. very important. i thought
that's what the dependency mandriva found was. if it was, something got
messed up in the process. went back and separately downloaded the lpr
driver and printer driver, then installed each individually. everything
works fine now. haven't done refined tests but it's printing, rather
nicely, i might add.