On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 08:52:05PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > I carelessly bought a printer/scanner that has a proprietary driver. > It worked fine in Fedora 18 and earlier. > It doesn't seem to work with Fedora 19. > Not much to be done with a proprietary driver, but I'd be happy with any > reasonable solution. > > The printer is a network printer. I have a CentOS 5 box that can print on > it. I thought that my CentOS 5 box could act as a print server for my > Fedora 19 box. > > I arranged that, using the respective GUI tools. > > It doesn't seem to work. So I think that my F19 box still needs the > proprietary driver. I get one line of postscript printed on the page. > > Is there some way that I can get the F19 box to treat the CentOS > machine's published printer as something generic, like a PostScript > printer? > > Here's where Brother describes Linux support: > <http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html> > > I don't seem to have SELinux issues. Have you actually downloaded and installed (and configured, as needed) the drivers Brother provides? you don't actually say... We have a different model (MFC-8480DN) Brother all-in-one at work, and using Brother's drivers I've got both the printer and scanner operating, though I have to admit I haven't tried it on Centos 6. Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen." ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) ----------------------------- -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
