On Wednesday 25 February 2015 10:03:31 Lisi Reisz wrote: > 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. So my posting the ppd is a known copyright violation? Oh shit... > > Then it can't have been in Lucid either, surely?
The driver was then available on the support.brother.com web page, now its 2 years old so they hid it, but the installer script I also posted, and which is likely a copyright violation too, can still get it and install it. CUPS recognizes the duplex options and can control them, and I just found the open office printer dialog does too, but haven't found a suitable document for a test print from OO, it doesn't seem to want to load and display a .pdf. > > 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 Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502251038.06593.ghesk...@wdtv.com