Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:18:40 +0100
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon 22 Jun 2015 at 21:55:40 -0700, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
>
> > * it's possible that there's still a problem with the printer being on
> > ethernet, as of right now it's on USB (thank again Brian for that
> > suggestion).
> >
> > Thanks very much everyone for your help !
>
> I think Gary Dale's prod was a good one. You are also deserve a pat on
> the back for perservering and thinking it through for yourself.
>
I got ethernet working!
The very weird thing that CUPS does is give me a selection of 6, that's right, 6 different "discovered" network printers to choose from.
5 of them are exactly the same.
1 of them is different AND DOES NOT WORK. (it's: lpd://BRN001BA9BC9354/BINARY_P1)
There's something somewhat screwed up and it's unknown whether it's brother's printer driver or CUPS.
However just for the future searchers of this list, here's the choice that _does_ work.
dnssd://Brother%20DCP-8110DN._ipp._tcp.local/
LOL. Never in a million years could i have figured out that was something i could enter. good thing CUPS gave me the choice so i didn't have to try and figure it out. Clearly brother is doing something that's not totally wrong since CUPS gave me the choice and it worked. I had to pick the associated PPD file too, but that was part of the install when i installed Brother's debian package...
Now the really hard part. Gonna try and get the scanner working.
*heavy sigh*
Brian
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