I'm running 13.37 and jes bought a new brother fax2840. I usta man config my old brother hl1440 in LPRng. Then a driver fer CUPS made it a cinch. Even later, in 13.37, it configured itself. Now, with a new fax/printer, no such luck. Slack no longer even has LPRng. There are drivers available in rpm and deb pkgs. I don't know how to install them from those two pkgs. I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty and know how to compile from source, but I haven't a clue about rpm and debs. Anyone care to help and old dumb geezer?

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I've written a little HOWTO on setting up a Brother HL-2030 printer. Installation is basically the same as your model.

http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/L...CUPS-HOWTO.txt

This SlackDocs page may help. http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:har...r_installation

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OMG!! It can't be this easy.

After reading all that info, I did two simple steps. I ran the rpm2txz command (with all those options) on the 2 rpm pkgs and then installed the txz pkgs (lpr 1st). Voilà! When I went back to the cups webpage, there was my printer. I printed the cups webpage from my browser and the printer worked flawlessly. I LOVE Slackware. I love Brother printers. Allend, ....well, I like you a whole bunch. Thank you for the that excellent link. Kiki, I thank you, too, even if I don't really speak French. I've always been a bit wary of that rpm2foo command, suspicious it didn't really perform as advertised. Silly me. Now I know better.

Again, thank you all.