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solid

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Registered: 2015-01-26

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[SOLVED] Driver for Brother DCP-1510

Tried using the PKGBUILD from here to no avail. I've tried looking at the PKGBUILDs from the AUR but the file structure of the various drivers seem to be quite different and having never written a PKGBUILD myself I'm way in over my head.

Not asking to be spoonfed (although I do admit at this point I wouldn't mind anymore) though, if someone can point me in the right direction I'd be happy with that.

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edit: apparently the solution was under my nose this whole time. from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CU … ed_by_CUPS:

# modprobe usblp
# systemctl stop org.cups.cupsd.service

Create /etc/udev/rules.d/10-cups_device_link.rules and add:

 KERNEL=="lp[0-9]", SYMLINK+="%k", GROUP="lp" 

 # udevadm control --reload-rules 

Unplug printer, plug it in again and restart CUPS

 # systemctl start org.cups.cupsd.service 

Last edited by solid (2015-09-03 16:56:58)

Steef435

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Re: [SOLVED] Driver for Brother DCP-1510

Please be more specific, what didn't work? Installing the package or the driver itself? Any error messages?

I spotted /usr/lib64, could it be related to this issue?

solid

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Registered: 2015-01-26

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Driver for Brother DCP-1510

Please be more specific, what didn't work? Installing the package or the driver itself? Any error messages?

I spotted /usr/lib64, could it be related to this issue?

Sorry, should've mentioned that I removed that line based on this :

"A potential issue with the upgrade on x86_64 is finding conflicting files in /usr/lib64. All Arch Linux packages that had files in this directory have been updated, so update these individually first. Any AUR packages with files in this directory should be updated to install them in /usr/lib."

I removed

 install -d -m755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib64/cups/filter" 

From the PKGBUILD since it is already installed in /usr/lib in the previous line. It installs without problem, but despite restarting the CUPS service, it doesn't appear in the CUPS browser interface.

Also:

$ lpinfo -v
network https
network http
network lpd
network ipp
network ipps
network socket
network smb

.

But I'm sure that my system can see the printer:

# sudo /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
DEBUG: Loading USB quirks from "/usr/share/cups/usb".
DEBUG: Loaded 72 quirks.
DEBUG: list_devices
DEBUG: libusb_get_device_list=11
DEBUG2: Printer found with device ID: MFG:Brother;CMD:PJL,XL2HB;MDL:DCP-1510 series;CLS:PRINTER;CID:Brother Laser Type1; Device URI: usb://Brother/DCP-1510%20series?serial=E72065M3N779162
direct usb://Brother/DCP-1510%20series?serial=E72065M3N779162 "Brother DCP-1510 series" "Brother DCP-1510 series" "MFG:Brother;CMD:PJL,XL2HB;MDL:DCP-1510 series;CLS:PRINTER;CID:Brother Laser Type1;" "

$ lsusb | grep Brother
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04f9:02d0 Brother Industries, Ltd