Re: My printer doesn't work for bullseye's cups
On Wed 23 Feb 2022 at 18:44:37 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
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> With all the crash and burn sessions I've had with bullseye, I'd have to
> go get the drivers anew from Brother if cups-everywhere can't do it.
It is possible it may yet come to that.
> Is that what I have to do for this printer? FWIW No Brother printers show
> up at all in the ppd selection menu.
>
> Might be related:
> sane-find-scanner, run as root, finds the scanner in this MFC at:
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04f9 [Brother], product=0x02f5 [MFC-J6920DW])
> at libusb:003:005
>
> but xsane can't find it. So both the printer and the scanner are on the
> injured list.
Let's put scanning on one side for the time being.
1. Read the Release Notes for Debian 11.
2. Disconnect fro USB. It complicates matters.
3. Give
avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp
avahi-browse -rt _uscan._tcp
driverless
4. avahi-browse is in the avahi-utils package.
--
Brian.
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