Talk:Brother networked printer

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Working Configuration

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Working Configuration:

• Printer: Brother MFC 8880 DN
• System:
• 3.17.7-gentoo :-)
• default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-emul-linux-x86/desktop/gnome/systemd
• net-print/cups-1.7.5
• Driver: Files
• mfc8880dnlpr-2.0.3-1.i386.rpm
• cupswrapperMFC8880DN-2.0.4-1.i386.rpm

Perfect, as usual with GENTOO ... — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Trenzinger (talk • contribs)

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DCP-1610W Series

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• Tested for Brother DCP-1612WR
• System: Linux 4.9.34-gentoo
• CUPS 2.0.1

Driver files:

- dcp1610wlpr-3.0.1-1.i386.rpm
- dcp1610wcupswrapper-3.0.1-1.i386.rpm

1. Unpack rpm packages to wlpr and cupswrapper
2. Run following commands:

mkdir -p "/usr/libexec/cups/filter"
mkdir -p "/usr/share/cups/model/Brother"
cp -r wlpr/opt /
cp -r wlpr/var /
cp cupswrapper/brother_lpdwrapper_DCP1610W /usr/libexec/cups/filter/
cp cupswrapper/brother-DCP1610W-cups-en.ppd /usr/share/cups/model/Brother/

3. Configure your printer via CUPs interface

Generic driver instructions not compatible with multilib?

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I notice that the Generic LPR printer driver on AMD64 section holds instructions on manually deploying Template:Ld-linux.so. Is this needed? Shouldn't this be automatically covered by multilib profiles?

I've made some slight changes already on the section to use /usr/local/{lib,lib32} rather than /lib and /lib32 but I'm still not convinced the documented approach is the correct one.

--SwifT (talk) 12:24, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Maybe that section is meant to describe a solution especially for a non-multilib profile? But I am not sure about the authors real intention. --Charles17 (talk) 15:31, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Hello! I am the one who added these instructions to help people who don't have or are unable to set up multilib. It's a bit of a hack, but I had to quickly deploy two new Brother printers on two Gentoo systems where multilib wasn't an option. Feel free to modify as you like. Cheers, Nick (nick@southernaq.com)