On Sun, 2020-08-16 at 18:55 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > > I have or have had 3 brother printers here, of three widely diverse > generations. > they all worked fine on Linux. the oldest one, when I initially > connected it up > I used USB, and Linux (an old CentOS, probably 4.x, could I but > remember) popped > up a window saying such-and-such printer found, do you want it to be > automatically > configured? so I said yes and voila, a working printer! > > the laer two, DCP-7065N and HL-L2360DW work fine with the Brother > drivers. > I read a review on the 2360 a while back that mentioned one of the > "standard" > drivers that comes with Linux also works with it, but don't recall > which. > > the 7065 is a multifunction, and using the Brother drivers, not only > does > it print, but the scanner works too. > > Oh, all of them were connected via ethernet (even if the first > started as USB, > it wasn't long before I dragged a network cable over to it). >
I have a Brother HL-3170CDW that works with no configuration at all with Fedora. It was autodiscovered via mDNS and is using the built-in drivers included with Fedora. It's wifi-capable but being in my office near a switch anyway, I just hardwired it. _______________________________________________ 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
