On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 02:37:33PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.
>
My first Brother printer (HL-2070N) was automatically recognized by
my Centos sysstem (C4 or 5, I think)which, when the USB cable was
plugged in said it had recognized a BrotherHL-2070N and asked if I
wanted it automatically configured. I said YES, and it "just worked",
using one of the drivers shipped with Linux
Now they need the brother proprietary drivers, but they still work
well on my newer Centos systems
(haven't tried on C8 yet).
Fred
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all ages, now and forevermore! Amen."
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