On 09/12/2011 02:16 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On 09/10/2011 01:55 PM, Gordon Charrick wrote: >> I just bought a Brother laser all-in-one (MFC-7860DW) after determining >> that it should work fine with Linux. It does wired/wireless and I have >> it connected to my network via wireless. > >> A mac and a windows machine on the network see the printer and it works >> fine with them. > >> When I use system-config-printer to try to set up the printer in Fedora >> 15 the following happens: > >> I click the Network Printer dropdown under "Select Device" and the >> printer shows up with the proper IP address. Under "Connection", "IPP >> network printer via DNS-SD" is selected. I choose the driver and apply >> the settings. It prompts to print a test page and I click to print it. >> The job for the test page is submitted and a window with the settings >> shows up and the Printer State shows as "Stopped - Destination printer >> does not exist!". The Device URI is >> "dnssd://Brother%20MFC-7860DW._ipp._tcp.local/". > >> Not really sure where to go from here. > > Try using something like: > > ipp://192.168.2.101/ipp > > replacing the IP address with the correct one for the printer, and > see if that works. It does on F14 for a MFC-7820N using the CUPS driver. > > Where you go from there depends on how you want to handle the > printer IP address. I have mine assigned a fixed address by the DHCP > server, though you can probably give it a static IP address in the > printer setup. > > There is a way to use the setup you have, but it involves opening up > ports in the firewall, and running the zero-config daemon. (I forget > the name of it.) It's called "Avahi" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "lousy hunter" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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
