Hi On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 03:17:14PM +0200, drz wrote: > Hi all > > Anybody got a Brother printer running? (Especially MFC-7420) > > Brother provides a driver but its compiled against i386 and there are > executables (or binaries) in the package so its not possible to use the > driver > on a powerpc. > They do not provide source packages (Brother Linux Driver center > http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/ ). > I didnt investigate very far. But does anybody have a brother printer running?
Yes. Some printer, especially those with PCL or PS emulation run fine. But MFC printers are trickier. As far as I know no MFC device is fully supported. I don't know if printing works with some of them. I one wrote to brother about the proprietary drivers, but they weren't very cooperative. They use a strange lincense which allows modification, but don't provide source. See http://linuxprinting.org for more information about specific devices. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org