On 10/20/19 1:09 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 02:37:33PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2019-10-20 at 08:53 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Aaron Gray writes:
You can find the drivers here:
<URL:https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html?
c=us_ot&lang=en&comple=on&redirect=on>https://support.brother.
com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html?c=us_ot&lang=en&comple=on&redirect=on
Ah thats great, wondering why the Fedora driver did not work, should this go
on bugzilla ?
No, it shouldn't. Brother does not apparently release their printer drivers
as free software, or publish open specifications so that the free software
community can implement by themselves. There's nothing that Fedora can do
about that, and a Bugzilla bug will not accomplish anything.
All that Brother does is release their drivers as downloadable black boxes.
That will hopefully work on your particular Linux distribution. And even if
they work well now, there's little that guarantees that they will continue
to work the next time the kernel is updated. Or glibc. Or CUPS itself, or
any other library the printer driver depends on.
All unarguably true, nevertheless I've had a Brother Wifi All-in-one
(DCP-7055W) for over 5 years and haven't had any problems under Fedora,
both printing and scanning (using the blob driver obviously). It will
occasionally get confused if the home network goes down, but a quick
power cycle sorts it out.
My first Brother printer (HL-2070N) was automatically recognized by
my Centos sysstem (C4 or 5, I think)which, when the USB cable was
plugged in said it had recognized a BrotherHL-2070N and asked if I
wanted it automatically configured. I said YES, and it "just worked",
using one of the drivers shipped with Linux
Now they need the brother proprietary drivers, but they still work
well on my newer Centos systems
(haven't tried on C8 yet).
Fred
I've had two Ethernet connected Brother printers over nearly 20 years,
and they've always worked with whatever Linux I've used over that time -
( pre RHEL ) Redhat, CentOS, Fedora, and even Raspian.
- Derrik
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