On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 11:26:42 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:06:21 +0100 > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday 12 June 2015 05:16:51 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > Windows was no problem at all for the printer i have. > > > > Which version of Windows? Or are you saying that your printer has drivers > > for > > all versions of Windows? In my experience, you have to throw things away > > when the version of Windows changes and there is no driver for that > > version. > > After you have scoured the Internet. > > > > i have both xp and win 7. > > printer is a dcp-8110dn. > > my problem under linux is NOT the driver. as i said, brother actually > has a cups/driver package for linux - but i found it to be broken and > doing weird set-up things.
What is this "driver" you are talking about? Does it have a location and a name on your machine? Is it provided in Debian? If the Brother "driver" is broken then surely you know who to contact? > so i used the cups driver, i can't remember what driver specifically, > and all was well after a considerable amount of effort. cups provides few "drivers". Which one did you use? It should be on your system if you are using it. > it's actually getting CUPS to work that's my problem, not the driver > under cups. i think people are assuming i'm having a driver problem > when i'm actually having a getting cups to work problem. Ah. It's not the "driver"? It's the scheduler which is misbehaving, In what way? > now, last time i tried to set it up was about 2 years ago. maybe > things are better now, hence the reason i should try again. but my > experience last time was so miserable i keep procrastinating. What "things" could be better? -- 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/13062015202530.7638fcd3e...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
