Brother 1440 printer on Fedora Core 4

[Neil Cherry]

Eric Beversluis wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 09:32 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote:
>> Eric Beversluis wrote:
>>> Help! I need my printer (Brother 1440). I've already spent two days
>>> trying to get it up. I've learned a good bit about how printing works on
>>> Linux, but haven't had success. (This printer always ran automatically
>>> with my old Mandrake 10.1 install.)
>>>
>>> I've just installed Core 4 on a Sony PCG-SRX77. (I also installed
>>> (server installation) on a Dell OptiPlex, but I haven't tried to get the
>>> printer going there yet.)
>>>
>>> Brother has two drivers, one for lpd and one as a
>>> "cupswrapper" (whatever that is). The lpd rpm needs to be installed
>>> before the cupswrapper rpm. When I tried to install the lpd rpm I got
>>> this error message:
>>>
>>>     /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.48389: line 2: /etc/init.d/lpd: No such file or 
>>>        directory
>>>     error: %post(hl1440lpr-1.1.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 
>>>       127
>> Before installing the lpd driver you need to link lpd to cups in
>> /etc/init.d. Then install the lpd driver. Then install the
>> cups driver.
> 
> But as nearly as I can tell, lpd isn't there anywhere (it doesn't show
> up in 'ps -e' either. I'm confused.

Read the directions on the Brother page. That what they state, I did
it then I removed the link afterwards. Then I loaded up the cups
driver. I don't know why but that's the way it worked. I'm using
a HL2070N.

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