On Wednesday 25 February 2015 14:46:36 Brian wrote:
> On Wed 25 Feb 2015 at 15:27:44 +0100, Petter Adsen wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:03:17 +0000
> >
> > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 12:48:52 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 03:30:06 Curt wrote:
> > > > > On 2015-02-24, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Went around the bush again, turned it off in cups default,
> > > > > > called up iceweasals print menu and again was denied duplex
> > > > > > functions.
> > >
> > > Gene - I just looked at
> > > http://www.openprinting.org/printers
> > > (Why didn't I think of that before?)
> > > Your printer is not in the list of Brother printers which can be
> > > expected to work in Linux, and they do not provide a driver for it.
> > >
> > > Will your printer work properly with a current Ubuntu Live CD? (14.10
> > > presumably)  Perhaps find a way of extracting the Ubuntu driver?
> > > They have probably tweaked something.
> >
> > No need :)
> >
> > I have a 14.10 machine right here, and there is no driver for his
> > printer there. I've checked.
>
> Not surprising; the licence for the Brother software doesn't permit
> distribution.

Then it can't have been in Lucid either, surely?

> The lack of advice on the HL-3170CDW at openprinting is an indication
> that no user of it has added any, not a judgement on whether it works
> on Linux.

Yes, but if there had been advice it woudl have been useful.

So do you agree with Gene that it is a Wheezy bug?

Lisi


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