Re: Can't print: /var/spool/lpd
On Fri 11 Dec 2020 at 21:33:42 -0300, riveravaldez wrote:
> Hi, I'm having an issue with a Brother HL-3150CDN printer on Debian Testing.
You do not say, so we will assume there is a USB connection. The device
probably does IPP-over-USB; you will want to read
https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting
> The printer functions with the drivers CUPS offers by default, but the
> official Brother's drivers has some options that I need to work with
> the equipment.
An interesting comment. Debian will have set uo a print queue for the
printer. Please give the output of
lpoptions -p PRINT_Q_NAME -l
> I was able to install these drivers some time ago, but now they didn't
> seem to work.
>
> The two file to install are:
> hl3150cdnlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb
> hl3150cdncupswrapper-1.1.4-0.i386.deb
>
> Both for 32-bits, so, I did the:
> $ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
> $ sudo apt-get update
>
> And then used apt-get to install them.
> The packages get installed but didn't seem to send the data to the
> printer at printing time.
> Any idea how to diagnose this?
>
> The only error I'd saw until now is when I install the lpr package:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install ./hl3150cdnlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb
> (...)
> mkdir: no se puede crear el directorio «/var/spool/lpd/hl3150cdn»: No
> existe el fichero o el directorio
> chown: no se puede acceder a '/var/spool/lpd/hl3150cdn': No existe el
> fichero o el directorio
> chgrp: no se puede acceder a '/var/spool/lpd/hl3150cdn': No existe el
> fichero o el directorio
> chmod: no se puede acceder a '/var/spool/lpd/hl3150cdn': No existe el
> fichero o el directorio
The installation of this package goes smoothly on my i386 machine.
--
Brian.
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