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I'm trying to use my office Brother 8840D printer from linux (it works fine in Windows, but I'm trying out a switchover). This is a network printer connected only via Cat5. I found some stuff on the brother site that talked about installing their driver, which they have for debian, redhat suse, etc. How do I go about installing a driver from one of these distros to arch? I can download the driver itself right from brother.
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There are a few guides on how to install in the wiki, use the same method.
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I found this one in connection with a Dell computer setup; this is copied from the wiki and is just here for others who may have the same question, as it took a bit of digging. Haven't played with it yet to see what works and how it works with my project.
Conexant HDA D110 MDC V.92 modem (winmodem)
The Conexant modem requires the proprietary hsfmodem driver. Dell offers a debian package hsfmodem_7.60.00.06oem_i386.deb at their support site that works at full speed unlike the trial version from Linuxant which works at 14.4kbps.
The following PKGBUILD can be used to create an archlinux hsfmodem package from the debian package:
pkgname=hsfmodem
pkgver=7.60.00.06oem
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Conexant modem driver by Dell"
url="http://support.dell.com/"
license=("unknown")
arch=('i686')
source=(${pkgname}_${pkgver}_i386.deb)
md5sums=('80d38fccab347638fa7a2237b458b428')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/
ar x ${pkgname}_${pkgver}_i386.deb
tar xzf data.tar.gz
cp -a usr etc $startdir/pkg/
}
1. Download and place hsfmodem_7.60.00.06oem_i386.deb and the PKGBUILD in a new folder, and run makepkg to create the package. See ABS for details on building packages.
2. Run hsfconfig as root to build the module and initialise the modem. A reboot is required before the modem can be initialised. Run hsfconfig again after reboot.
3. The modules are automatically loaded and a /dev/modem symlink is setup for use with the modem. Now use wvdial or other dialer programs to connect to the internet.
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networked printers use lpd protocol (tcp515), we have lexmark Phasers and HP networked printers. All I had to do is get drivers (PPD), ip address of printer and configure lpd printing in cups.
drivers for brother are here
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/ … ivers.html
some info here
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/ … stall.html
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