[Solved] Adding Brother MFC-L2710DN in Arch

Amicar · 2024-02-14 15:42:53

I installed the AUR package for my printer: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brother-mfc-l2710dn

yay -S brother-mfc-l2710dn

Then restarted cups:

sudo systemctl restart cups

Then attempted to add the printer via the browser-based cups GUI. I was expecting that like for other brands' printers, I'd now be able to select 'Brother' under 'Make' in the cups GUI, but there's no corresponding option. I've experimented with all the options under 'Generic'; in each case, cups and Gnome indicate that printing has completed. But when I check the space-time continuum (specifically the printer tray), nothing has been printed.

What am I missing about how to set up this printer using the AUR driver?

[title edited - my printer is MFC-L2710DN, not MFC-L2710DW]

Last edited by Amicar (2024-02-15 13:13:11)

seth · 2024-02-14 16:44:38

worksforme™

pacman -Qikk brother-mfc-l2710dn
systemctl status cups.service

progandy · 2024-02-14 17:38:15

In your title you wrote mfc-l2710dw, but you installed mfc-l2710dn, might that be a problem?

There is another package for -DW available, and brlaser or brlaser-git should work as well.

Amicar · 2024-02-15 13:12:55

$ pacman -Qikk brother-mfc-l2710dn
error: package 'brother-mfc-l2710dn' was not found
[matthew@archlinux ~]$ yay -S brother-mfc-l2710dn
AUR Explicit (1): brother-mfc-l2710dn-4.0.0-1
Sync Dependency (1): lib32-glibc-2.39-1
:: PKGBUILD up to date, skipping download: brother-mfc-l2710dn

This indicates to me that the package was installed but somehow incomplete. I reinstalled, restarted cups, and:

$ sudo systemctl restart cups
[matthew@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qikk brother-mfc-l2710dn
Name            : brother-mfc-l2710dn
Version         : 4.0.0-1
Description     : LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother MFC-L2710DN
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/
Licenses        : custom:Brother commercial license
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : cups  lib32-glibc
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 366.91 KiB
Packager        : Unknown Packager
Build Date      : Thu 15 Feb 2024 13:23:37 CET
Install Date    : Thu 15 Feb 2024 13:23:41 CET
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : Yes
Validated By    : None

brother-mfc-l2710dn: 37 total files, 0 altered files
[user@archlinux ~]$ systemctl status cups.service
● cups.service - CUPS Scheduler
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2024-02-15 13:23:46 CET; 16s ago
TriggeredBy: ● cups.path
             ● cups.socket
       Docs: man:cupsd(8)
   Main PID: 41382 (cupsd)
     Status: "Scheduler is running..."
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 33509)
     Memory: 3.7M (peak: 3.9M)
        CPU: 8ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/cups.service
             └─41382 /usr/bin/cupsd -l

Feb 15 13:23:46 archlinux systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Scheduler...
Feb 15 13:23:46 archlinux systemd[1]: Started CUPS Scheduler.

So basically, it's working and it's hard to identify why, or why it wasn't working before.

seth · 2024-02-15 14:06:17

$ pacman -Qikk brother-mfc-l2710dn
error: package 'brother-mfc-l2710dn' was not found

Means it was *not* installed, your previous yay run simply failed, maybe on a password timeout.

progandy · 2024-02-15 18:20:07

[matthew@archlinux ~]$ yay -S brother-mfc-l2710dn
AUR Explicit (1): brother-mfc-l2710dn-4.0.0-1
Sync Dependency (1): lib32-glibc-2.39-1
:: PKGBUILD up to date, skipping download: brother-mfc-l2710dn

This message only tells you that the PKGBUILD file (the build instructions) were downloaded, not that the package was built and installed.
As seth said,, only packages that are listed by pacman istelf as installed are installed.

Last edited by progandy (2024-02-15 18:21:48)

mcloaked · 2024-02-15 19:17:28

Your printer is in the listed support for driverless printing - as at https://openprinting.github.io/printers/ - so that means that setting it up should in principle not need any external drivers or driver packages and the Arch Wiki would suggest that it can be set up using a command such as:

# lpadmin -p AirPrint -E -v "ipp://10.0.x.y/ipp/print" -m everywhere

Where the ip address would be your local lan address for the printer. ( as from section 5.1.1 at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS ).

I have a different printer (an HP laser) but driverless printing is really nice compared with having to download additional drivers. The scanning for your printer should in principle be made to work with the brscan4 package from AUR.

Last edited by mcloaked (2024-02-15 20:10:24)

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[Solved] Adding Brother MFC-L2710DN in Arch

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