On Sun, 2019-10-20 at 08:53 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Aaron Gray writes: > > > You can find the drivers here: > > > > <URL:https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html? > > > > c=us_ot&lang=en&comple=on&redirect=on>https://support.brother. > > com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html?c=us_ot&lang=en&comple=on&redirect=on > > > > > > > > Ah thats great, wondering why the Fedora driver did not work, should this > > go > > on bugzilla ? > > No, it shouldn't. Brother does not apparently release their printer drivers > as free software, or publish open specifications so that the free software > community can implement by themselves. There's nothing that Fedora can do > about that, and a Bugzilla bug will not accomplish anything. > > All that Brother does is release their drivers as downloadable black boxes. > That will hopefully work on your particular Linux distribution. And even if > they work well now, there's little that guarantees that they will continue > to work the next time the kernel is updated. Or glibc. Or CUPS itself, or > any other library the printer driver depends on.
All unarguably true, nevertheless I've had a Brother Wifi All-in-one (DCP-7055W) for over 5 years and haven't had any problems under Fedora, both printing and scanning (using the blob driver obviously). It will occasionally get confused if the home network goes down, but a quick power cycle sorts it out. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
