http://porteus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=678
I will try to define the situation in this post in cleared terms: there are printing problems for brother printers under Porteus. In my case, the brother hl2170w and dcp-7020:
http://porteus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=728
Beny reported it does not work either for its brother dcp-197c.
Non satisfied to have my HP laserjet 3030 working on Porteus v 1.0 32-bit with Wread's strategy (many thanks to him):
http://porteus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=457#p3212
I am working on the case of the printer brother hl2170w. Essentially, I am following the same path as I did under slax:
http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=vi ... ntID=33379
However following Guest instructions from post 2, after downloading the two necessary printer drivers from:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bs ... l#HL-2170W
- LPR: brhl2170wlpr-2.0.2-1.i386.rpm
- cupswrapper:cupswrapperHL2170W-2.0.2-1.i386.rpm
1.0 Under porteus, I could not get them to be converted in proper xzm (lzma2) modules using the right click rpm2xzm command: 'Some error occured while activating the module' message appears. But I finally had to go the slax 612 way to get the xzm modules for these two printer drivers:
1.1 First solution (less elegant, mine):
1.11 under slax 612 downloaded rpm2lzm
1.12 rpm2lzm under slax612
1.13 exported brhl2170wlpr-2.0.2-1.i386.lzm and cupswrapperHL2170W-2.0.2-1.i386.lzm to porteus
1.14 converted with lzm2xzm command the two modules
Second solution (beny's solution):
Under porteus rpm2txz and txz2xzm works
2.0 Although I have these two modules, I am not able to get the above mentioned solution to work,
the same path as I did under slax:
http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=vi ... ntID=33379
3.0 Gutenprint, ghostscrip and ghostscript-fonts solution. I am not able to get the brother printer to work, even when adding gutenprint, ghostscrip and ghostscript-fonts. Which in fact, is usually a very good solution for many brands of printers. This solution works under slax 612 and it works for Blablotin and cttan for respectively their HP Deskjet 930C and Canon MP145:
http://porteus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=632
However adding gutenprint, hplip helped cups recognise my brother hl2170w. This seems not to be enough. When trying the print page I always get the error message:
''The page your are trying to view is the result of posted form data. If you resend the data, any action the form carried out (such as search or online purchase) will be repeated.''
4.0 Restarting cups (hamza's solution), reinstalling cups or cups older version. Beny was able to print with his brother printer by installing a former version of cups downgrade at 1.4.3 of the 32-bit architecture. However, he is working under Porteus 64-bit with compat libraries:
http://porteus.org/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 8&start=10
4.1 Beny's solution adapted under Porteus 32-bit:
http://porteus.org/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 8&start=10
4.11 downloaded thru slackyd cups 1.4.3-i486-3.hi francois, i have a new for the brother print, well i have make the two driver lpt and cupswrapper for my model, installed i have run a script into a folder for to make a module filter,i have installed all the printer software located in slackware repo and i have change cups version i have downgrade at 1.4.3 version,well not printing yet at final i have installed the compat-32-libraries-1.1.02_13.37 located in slacky 64 bit libraries,and restarted cups i have print in 64 bit with the dcp-197c,i have to fight for the scanner but for now it is ok.and of course all the software installed isn't so light in weight,but virtualbox and windows loads more.
4.12 slapt-get, search cups, downgraded to cups 1.4.3-i486-3.
4.13 Starting cups in browser:
http://localhost:631/admin/
4.141 Working with a brother DCP-7020. I have to use the only driver available a DCP-1500. Looks good, the printer was installed with no error message. However, no printout.
4.142 Working with a brother hl2170w. I get the error message:"could not connect with local host"
I will try beny's solution under Porteus 64-bit and then will experiment Porteus 32-bit on brother hl-2170w for my next steps.
Do you have some printer other than hp that works under porteus?