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Old 02-26-2007, 05:15 PM   #1
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Need help setting up Brother 420cn printer


I have read a ton of articles on this, but I might as well be reading some ancient Roman language as nothing makes sense.

Does anyone now a good howto for dummies like article for installing this printer on Slackware.

I have cups installed and running, and did download an .rpm of the Brother drivers, but I get erros when trying to install them. I think they are actually for Redhat.

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Old 02-26-2007, 06:06 PM   #2
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http://openprinting.org/show_printer...ther-MFC-420CN
states that you need to download a driver from brother's site.

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that site sucks
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ok try to wget this

unpack, make and pray.
 
Old 02-26-2007, 06:42 PM   #3
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http://openprinting.org/show_printer...ther-MFC-420CN

All I can find here is Redhat, Debian and Suse drivers. I went around in circles for an hour trying to find Slackware drivers, but they don't seem to exist. If you can provide a direct link to them.........

What exactly is bh7-cupsw-src.1.0.0-9.tar.gz? I googled it and found nothing.

Thanks
 
Old 02-26-2007, 06:55 PM   #4
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i already did...
it's the source package.
 
Old 02-26-2007, 06:57 PM   #5
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have you tried doing this?

Code:
$ rpm2tgz <filename>.rpm
im sure its not the recommended way of doing it but hell if it works who cares...
 
Old 02-26-2007, 09:38 PM   #6
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I found this link, but I'm not about to go to this length to get a printer to work.

http://www-gatago.com/alt/os/linux/s.../21378125.html

Not to get off track, but this is the main reason I go back to Windows everytime I get an itch to use Linux, I mean I always use it for a web and mail server, but not as a my main PC because of these problems. I just don't have hours to spend trying to get a printer or soundcard or scanner, etc to work.

Thanks for the input anyway.
 
Old 02-26-2007, 10:20 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Beauford-2
Not to get off track, but this is the main reason I go back to Windows everytime I get an itch to use Linux, I mean I always use it for a web and mail server, but not as a my main PC because of these problems. I just don't have hours to spend trying to get a printer or soundcard or scanner, etc to work.
I takes me minutes not hours ... in fact, for me the opposite is true, it took me hours on Window$ to get things working right ... of course, I don't use it anymore.

Now, it's rare that a printer get a perfect rating on openprinting.org, so if you get it to work it will work perfectly.

So try here:
http://forums.openprinting.org/list.php?24
 
Old 02-27-2007, 12:06 AM   #8
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I did a little more digging and now have it working. I first had to install the Slackware rpm installer. Then I downloaded the Redhat rpm for my printer and ran this:

rpm -Uvh --nodeps cupswrapperMFC420CN-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm

Then I used the KDE printer tool to set it up, and voila - I have a printer. I should add that it is printing using Cups.

Re: my comments regarding Windows. The fact is, and probably always will be, is that finding drivers for Linux, other than ones like Redhat, is always going to be a struggle. Companies just haven't got all the way on the bandwagon yet.

Even with this, my printer only prints - even though it is a 4 in one unit - fax, copy, scan, and print. How I would get those to work is for another day.

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