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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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Last edited by Beauford-2; 02-27-2007 at 12:08 AM.
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