Re: F33 just pretends to print

2022-04-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On a F33 fresh install I only had to to this as root: dnf update (important; needed so that last step works properly) dnf install gcc-c++ cmake cups-devel git clone https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser cd brlaser cmake . make make install dnf history un

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2021-01-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 1 Jan 2021, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On a F33 fresh install I only had to to this as root: dnf update (important; needed so that last step works properly) dnf install gcc-c++ cmake cups-devel git clone https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser cd br

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2021-01-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On a F33 fresh install I only had to to this as root: dnf update (important; needed so that last step works properly) dnf install gcc-c++ cmake cups-devel git clone https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser cd brlaser cmake . make make install dnf history un

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-31 Thread Doug H.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, at 6:10 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 12/30/20 1:35 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I've cloned the repository, but I'm unclear on a couple things > > Hi, > > On a F33 fresh install I only had to to this as root: > > dnf update (important; needed so that last step works pr

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-30 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 12/30/20 11:15 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > ## added > > Thanks again. You're welcome. Did the printer finally work? I'd like to know if I wasn't just lucky! For years I used to have Postscript printers, connected thru the network via IPP. All I needed was a simple PPD file and that was it

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On 12/30/20 1:35 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've cloned the repository, but I'm unclear on a couple things Hi, On a F33 fresh install I only had to to this as root: dnf update (important; needed so that last step works properly) dnf install gcc-c+

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-30 Thread Jerry James
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 10:35 PM Michael Hennebry wrote: > I've cloned the repository, but I'm unclear on a couple things: > From README.md: > > To compile brlaser you'll need CMake and the CUPS development packages > > (libcups2-dev, libcupsimage2-dev or similar). > > I've tried yum provides '*li

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-30 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 12/30/20 1:35 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I've cloned the repository, but I'm unclear on a couple things Hi, On a F33 fresh install I only had to to this as root: dnf update (important; needed so that last step works properly) dnf install gcc-c++ cmake cups-devel git clone https://github.co

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-29 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, Jorge Fábregas wrote: Thankfully I found the solution here: https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser That worked like a charm! After your perform "make install" it will copy just two files to: /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertobrlaser /usr/share/cups/drv/brlaser.drv Once you do t

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-29 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 12/28/20 12:57 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > Nothing actually prints. Not even a test page. > The printer never comes out of deep sleep. Michael, I've just bumped into this issue. I have a Brother HL-2300D (connected via USB as well) that I installed about 2 years ago (when I had Fedora 30).

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Doug H. wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2020, at 7:22 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I tried deleting both printers (I wanted charcoal) and running linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.2-1 . I got a lot of error messages about things already existing and eventually an offer to print a test p

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Adam Mercer
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:57 AM Joe Zeff wrote: > It's a bit off-topic, but did you get SELinix alerts, or what? And, did > you report it as a bug? I don't recall if I received any alerts or not, it was a while ago. I didn't file a bug report though. I will be reinstalling a system fairly soon

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/28/20 11:41 AM, Adam Mercer wrote: I have a HL-L8350CDW and the only way I could get it to print was to completely disable SELinux, a bit heavy handed but that was the only thing that I found that allowed me to print. It's a bit off-topic, but did you get SELinix alerts, or what? And, di

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Adam Mercer
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 9:57 PM Michael Hennebry wrote: > I have a Brother HL-L2360DL that I'd thought I'd finally managed to install. > I had to go to the Brother website to get a script to run. > The instructions for the script had the wrong name for it. > None of the default options for Brothe

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Doug H.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020, at 10:13 AM, Doug H. wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020, at 7:22 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > I tried deleting both printers (I wanted charcoal) > > and running > > linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.2-1 . > > I got a lot of error messages about things already existing > > and ev

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Doug H.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020, at 7:22 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I tried deleting both printers (I wanted charcoal) > and running > linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.2-1 . > I got a lot of error messages about things already existing > and eventually an offer to print a test page. > I typed y, but the pag

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: It's close. The instructions had the wrong script name. The file I downloaded had two scripts, neither of which was named in the instructions. For some reason I used ash linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.1-1 HL-L2360DW Actualy, bash, not ash. even thoug

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Ed Greshko wrote: On 28/12/2020 12:57, Michael Hennebry wrote: I have a Brother HL-L2360DL that I'd thought I'd finally managed to install. I had to go to the Brother website to get a script to run. The instructions for the script had the wrong name for it. None of the d

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/28/20 12:41 AM, David wrote: Buy the cheapest Chromebook you can find. Throwing somebody else's money at the problem should never, ever be the answer. There have been times in my life that even the cheapest computer Doesn't matter: It worked unde

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2020-12-28 at 17:38 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 28/12/2020 12:57, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I have a Brother HL-L2360DL that I'd thought I'd finally managed to install. > > I had to go to the Brother website to get a script to run. > > The instructions for the script had the wrong name

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 28/12/2020 12:57, Michael Hennebry wrote: I have a Brother HL-L2360DL that I'd thought I'd finally managed to install. I had to go to the Brother website to get a script to run. The instructions for the script had the wrong name for it. None of the default options for Brother printers came clo

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/28/20 12:41 AM, David wrote: Buy the cheapest Chromebook you can find. Throwing somebody else's money at the problem should never, ever be the answer. There have been times in my life that even the cheapest computer would have been more than I could afford, and I'll bet that I'm not t

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-27 Thread David
My two-cents: Buy the cheapest Chromebook you can find.At least that way you will know the printer works with Linux. Please don't shoot the messenger. LOL ! David Locklear On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 11:42 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > lpadmin -p charcoal -

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
lpadmin -p charcoal -o usb-unidir-default=true produces nothing. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin."

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: I have a Brother HL-L2360DL that I'd thought I'd finally managed to install. The CUPS adminstration "web" pages say the right things: Idle, accepting jobs, two completed jobs. Nothing actually prints. Not even a test page. The printer never comes

F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
I have a Brother HL-L2360DL that I'd thought I'd finally managed to install. I had to go to the Brother website to get a script to run. The instructions for the script had the wrong name for it. None of the default options for Brother printers came close. The CUPS adminstration "web" pages say the