On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there, > > I´m thinking of replacing my ages-old HP LaserJet 1100 (PCL4, PCL5, 16 > MB RAM) with a with a very affordable yet fast Samung (model ML-1665 - > product info at > http://ho.io/samsunglasers ) > > Samsung provides propietary, binary-only drivers for Linux at this location > http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/DR/201001/20100121132724343/UnifiedLinuxDriver_0.86.tar.gz > > However, they only mention Ubuntu, no word about Fedora. > > I´m not very happy to use binary-only drivers, because at some point > they might choose to discontinue them, or those binary drivers might > have dependencies that later cannot be fulfilled (say require an older > glibc version, older version of CUPS than present in future linux > version, etc etc). I had very similar worries about a Samsung scx-4500w that I got a year or two back - in fact it works fine in f14 and also did on f12, f11 and f10 and I detailed what I did at http://userbase.kde.org/Troubleshooting/Samsung_scx-4500W The only proprietary file I used in the end was the .ppd file the rest including scanning I could get working using open source including the scanner. You may find that you can get yours working in an analogous way.... Hope this helps./ -- mike c -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
