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crimsonpython24

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From: Taiwan

Registered: 2021-05-08

Posts: 38

[SOLVED] Brother printer configuration not working

Hello,

I tried to configure my Brother printer with no luck.

Here's what the printer tab looks like: https://i.imgur.com/TO3sHBu.png as you can see, both fields are blank, but whatever combinations i tried, I have no luck in getting the detection working.

On the other hand, here's my neighbor's HP printer, and it showed up perfectly fine with everything set up: https://i.imgur.com/b6zCorw.png

Can anybody please guide me through the process?

I've tried installing the following packages:

```
pacman -S cups

systemctl start cups
systemctl enable cups
systemctl enable cups.socket

pacman -S system-config-printer
```

And the respective driver for my printer at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brother-mfc-l2740dw/

P.S. running
```
sudo systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd.service
sudo systemctl start org.cups.cupsd.service
```
Gives an "service not found" error, but (1) I couldn't find a solution for it (2) my neighbor's HP printer have working configurations

UPDATED LOG FILES
https://gist.github.com/crimsonpython24 … 16fe43a89c (access log)
https://gist.github.com/crimsonpython24 … 5022bdba4f (error log)

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by crimsonpython24 (2021-05-09 13:51:06)

crimsonpython24

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother printer configuration not working

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Last edited by crimsonpython24 (2021-05-08 07:12:09)

crimsonpython24

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother printer configuration not working

Sorry, this problem is resolved.

I printed a network configuration test page from my printer and walked through the process manually. Seems like automated tools isn't always the solution...

Thanks to all that tried to help!

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother printer configuration not working

sudo systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd.service
sudo systemctl start org.cups.cupsd.service

Those were renamed around nov 2020 and don't exist anymore for archlinux cups .

The screenshots are not from cups webinterface or CLI, guess they are from system-config-printer ?

Is the printer connected through network and if so can its ip-address be pinged ?

Glad you figured it out.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2021-05-08 11:52:38)

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crimsonpython24

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From: Taiwan

Registered: 2021-05-08

Posts: 38

Re: [SOLVED] Brother printer configuration not working

Just to clarify, those screenshots are from the printer settings in the KDE interface via "Settings" >> "Printers" >> "Add printer" they are not from the webinterface

Yes, the printer can be pinged because it's on the same ethernet as my computer is using. I only had trouble figuring out how to find the address (but I never thought the manual configuration is much simpler than I thought)

How do I mark this question as solved?

Last edited by crimsonpython24 (2021-05-08 13:20:53)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother printer configuration not working

Prepend [Solved] to the title .
(edit first post, there's  a max length for titles so may have to shorten the exsiting title)

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky