Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Brother MFC9180 in gNewSense

[TJ]

Sebastian,

This gave me trouble in the past as well, causing me to use the
non-free drivers from Brothers site.  

A better solution is to install "system-config-printer" through
synaptic and set up the printer through cups, of course you need to
install cups as well, if not I believe system-config-printer will pull
it in as a dependency. 

You may need to reboot after this so the system will load and recognize
everything.  

Plug in your printer, run the above program and it should automatically
locate and recommend a free driver for you.  I have a Brother HL2270DW
and the "Generic PCL Laser Printer" works perfectly!  

TJ


El 05/01/15 a les 09:13, Sebastian Spieker ha escrit:
> Hello and happy new year!
> 
> I am trying to install a brother MFC-9180 (printer/scanner/copy/fax
> multifunction device) in gNewSense. In a Ubuntu system it could be
> done by typing
> 
> apt-get install brother-cups-wrapper-laser1
> 
> ... but in the gnewsense package lists this package is not included as
> the driver is not open-source.
> 
> - Is there an open-source driver for the device?
> - Does anybody know a website where people describe how they have
> managed to get there hardware running in gnewsense?
> 
> 
> Regards
> Sebastian