Can't get MCF 210C printer to work.

I'm trying to get my printer to install on SUSE 10, but this particular
printer is not listed in the selection. Every other MFC is listed except
this one. I downloaded the RPM driver from Brother and click on it and it
runs through KPackage and then asks me for my root password and goes
through the motions, but no new printers appear in the selection and
nothing works. Any suggestions would be wonderful.

pumpkins128@hotmail.com wrote:

> I'm trying to get my printer to install on SUSE 10, but this particular
> printer is not listed in the selection. Every other MFC is listed except
> this one. I downloaded the RPM driver from Brother and click on it and it
> runs through KPackage and then asks me for my root password and goes
> through the motions, but no new printers appear in the selection and
> nothing works. Any suggestions would be wonderful.

I can only speak for my printer brother mfc 420cn

basically install the 3 or for Rpms
brscan2 rpm for the scanner
brother printdriver rpm ( for your printer)
the brother cupswrapper rpm (for your printer)

and the fax printer rpm if your has a fax machine on it.

the cupwrapper is important to install for this printer--
then once these are installed and you start up the printer control centre in
yast it says updating printer list. and the your printer is automatically
installed and configured.. it not added to the printer list for some
reason.. but if you goto add printer then install usb printer is listed it
as a device..//Brother/mfc-420cn ( in my case) if you want to add multiple
copies of the printer..

http://solutions.brother.com/linux/s...s_drivers.html

http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/

hopefully this will help you out ...

> pumpkins128@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get my printer to install on SUSE 10, but this particular
> > printer is not listed in the selection. Every other MFC is listed except
> > this one. I downloaded the RPM driver from Brother and click on it and it
> > runs through KPackage and then asks me for my root password and goes
> > through the motions, but no new printers appear in the selection and
> > nothing works. Any suggestions would be wonderful.
>
> I can only speak for my printer brother mfc 420cn
>
> basically install the 3 or for Rpms
> brscan2 rpm for the scanner
> brother printdriver rpm ( for your printer)
> the brother cupswrapper rpm (for your printer)
>
> and the fax printer rpm if your has a fax machine on it.
>
> the cupwrapper is important to install for this printer--
> then once these are installed and you start up the printer control centre in
> yast it says updating printer list. and the your printer is automatically
> installed and configured.. it not added to the printer list for some
> reason.. but if you goto add printer then install usb printer is listed it
> as a device..//Brother/mfc-420cn ( in my case) if you want to add multiple
> copies of the printer..
>
> http://solutions.brother.com/linux/s...s_drivers.html
>
> http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/
>
> hopefully this will help you out ...
>
Thanks for the help and the links. I will try out your advice when I get
home this evening and will try and get back to you soon!

I hope it works for you ! ( it should)

just A little bit of extra Information:
If your planning to setup a network printer it works quite well..
simply goto printer control centre in yast

click ADD > print directly to network printer> NEXT > ( for the host name of
print server - put in the IP address of the printer- in this case you have
to give your printer a static IP- See in the brother manual how to give the
printer a static IP) NEXT> (give the printer a name) NEXT> ( choose your
model of printer under the brother listing-) NEXT> NEXT> FINISH>>> OK

sash wrote:

> I hope it works for you ! ( it should)
>
> just A little bit of extra Information:
> If your planning to setup a network printer it works quite well..
> simply goto printer control centre in yast
>
> click ADD > print directly to network printer> NEXT > ( for the host name
> of print server - put in the IP address of the printer- in this case you
> have to give your printer a static IP- See in the brother manual how to
> give the printer a static IP) NEXT> (give the printer a name) NEXT> (
> choose your model of printer under the brother listing-) NEXT> NEXT>
> FINISH>>> OK
Oh yeah I forgot to mention I believe your machine has card reader slots you
can access the card reader slots by typing ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in your
url bar of your browser ( only works if the usb is not connect or the card
reader slot is not blinking it blinks when trying to locate the computer
connected to the USB)

> sash wrote:
>
> > I hope it works for you ! ( it should)
> >
> > just A little bit of extra Information:
> > If your planning to setup a network printer it works quite well..
> > simply goto printer control centre in yast
> >
> > click ADD > print directly to network printer> NEXT > ( for the host name
> > of print server - put in the IP address of the printer- in this case you
> > have to give your printer a static IP- See in the brother manual how to
> > give the printer a static IP) NEXT> (give the printer a name) NEXT> (
> > choose your model of printer under the brother listing-) NEXT> NEXT>
> > FINISH>>> OK
> Oh yeah I forgot to mention I believe your machine has card reader slots you
> can access the card reader slots by typing ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in your
> url bar of your browser ( only works if the usb is not connect or the card
> reader slot is not blinking it blinks when trying to locate the computer
> connected to the USB)

I tried your advice. I downloaded the cupswrapper driver for my printer as
well as the drivers. But when I go to install the cupswrapper it says I
need "csh". What is "csh" and how do I install it? Thanks in advance for
your help.

pumpkins128@hotmail.com wrote:

>> sash wrote:
>>
>> > I hope it works for you ! ( it should)
>> >
>> > just A little bit of extra Information:
>> > If your planning to setup a network printer it works quite well..
>> > simply goto printer control centre in yast
>> >
>> > click ADD > print directly to network printer> NEXT > ( for the host
>> > name of print server - put in the IP address of the printer- in this
>> > case you have to give your printer a static IP- See in the brother
>> > manual how to give the printer a static IP) NEXT> (give the printer a
>> > name) NEXT> ( choose your model of printer under the brother listing-)
>> > NEXT> NEXT> FINISH>>> OK
>> Oh yeah I forgot to mention I believe your machine has card reader slots
>> you
>> can access the card reader slots by typing ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in
>> your url bar of your browser ( only works if the usb is not connect or
>> the card reader slot is not blinking it blinks when trying to locate the
>> computer connected to the USB)
>
> I tried your advice. I downloaded the cupswrapper driver for my printer
> as
> well as the drivers. But when I go to install the cupswrapper it says I
> need "csh". What is "csh" and how do I install it? Thanks in advance for
> your help.


goto software management and add tcsh it found on your suse disk.. I can not
remember if that was all the dependencies, but all it dependencies are
found on the suse disk..

> pumpkins128@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> >> sash wrote:
> >>
> >> > I hope it works for you ! ( it should)
> >> >
> >> > just A little bit of extra Information:
> >> > If your planning to setup a network printer it works quite well..
> >> > simply goto printer control centre in yast
> >> >
> >> > click ADD > print directly to network printer> NEXT > ( for the host
> >> > name of print server - put in the IP address of the printer- in this
> >> > case you have to give your printer a static IP- See in the brother
> >> > manual how to give the printer a static IP) NEXT> (give the printer a
> >> > name) NEXT> ( choose your model of printer under the brother listing-)
> >> > NEXT> NEXT> FINISH>>> OK
> >> Oh yeah I forgot to mention I believe your machine has card reader slots
> >> you
> >> can access the card reader slots by typing ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in
> >> your url bar of your browser ( only works if the usb is not connect or
> >> the card reader slot is not blinking it blinks when trying to locate the
> >> computer connected to the USB)
> >
> > I tried your advice. I downloaded the cupswrapper driver for my printer
> > as
> > well as the drivers. But when I go to install the cupswrapper it says I
> > need "csh". What is "csh" and how do I install it? Thanks in advance for
> > your help.
>
>
> goto software management and add tcsh it found on your suse disk.. I can not
> remember if that was all the dependencies, but all it dependencies are
> found on the suse disk..


I checked and I already have tcsh. From what I read and understand, tcsh
is supposed to be an advanced version of csh and is supposed to be fully
compatible. Any ideas? Sorry it took so long to get back to you, I had a
long weekend.

> > pumpkins128@hotmail.com wrote:
> >
> > >> sash wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > I hope it works for you ! ( it should)
> > >> >
> > >> > just A little bit of extra Information:
> > >> > If your planning to setup a network printer it works quite well..
> > >> > simply goto printer control centre in yast
> > >> >
> > >> > click ADD > print directly to network printer> NEXT > ( for the host
> > >> > name of print server - put in the IP address of the printer- in this
> > >> > case you have to give your printer a static IP- See in the brother
> > >> > manual how to give the printer a static IP) NEXT> (give the printer a
> > >> > name) NEXT> ( choose your model of printer under the brother listing-)
> > >> > NEXT> NEXT> FINISH>>> OK
> > >> Oh yeah I forgot to mention I believe your machine has card reader slots
> > >> you
> > >> can access the card reader slots by typing ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in
> > >> your url bar of your browser ( only works if the usb is not connect or
> > >> the card reader slot is not blinking it blinks when trying to locate the
> > >> computer connected to the USB)
> > >
> > > I tried your advice. I downloaded the cupswrapper driver for my printer
> > > as
> > > well as the drivers. But when I go to install the cupswrapper it says I
> > > need "csh". What is "csh" and how do I install it? Thanks in
advance for
> > > your help.
> >
> >
> > goto software management and add tcsh it found on your suse disk.. I
can not
> > remember if that was all the dependencies, but all it dependencies are
> > found on the suse disk..
>
>
> I checked and I already have tcsh. From what I read and understand, tcsh
> is supposed to be an advanced version of csh and is supposed to be fully
> compatible. Any ideas? Sorry it took so long to get back to you, I had a
> long weekend.


I'd also like to note that I am running on an AMD64 bit. I thought that
this might be what's causing my problems but i'm not sure. I'm really new
to linux so i'm not really sure. I checked the brother site and they say:

# For AMD64 bit users:
Our CUPS drivers and CUPS wrapper drivers have been developed and optimised
for 32 bit Linux distributions, a list of which can be found here:
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/s...fig_list2.html

However, if you are using an AMD64 bit distribution, we recommend you try
copying the file named "brlpdwrapper" from /usr/lib/cups/filter to
/usr/lib64/cups/filter.

I have looked in that folder for the "brlpdwrapper" and its not there. On
my computer there isn't a Cups folder at all, only in the 64-bit lib is
there a cups folder. I'm really lossed.

Thanks for all the help in advance.

pumpkins128@hotmail.com adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:


> However, if you are using an AMD64 bit distribution, we recommend you
> try copying the file named "brlpdwrapper" from /usr/lib/cups/filter to
> /usr/lib64/cups/filter.
>
> I have looked in that folder for the "brlpdwrapper" and its not there.
> On my computer there isn't a Cups folder at all, only in the 64-bit
> lib is
> there a cups folder. I'm really lossed.
>
> Thanks for all the help in advance.

Sorry to jump in late here but can you just clarify a couple of things
for me please:

Exactly which driver have you d/loaded from the Brother site?

Just had a look here:

http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html

and it appears that you need *both* the lpd drivers /and/ the cups
wrapper.

The lpd drivers support your printer but use the lpd printing in linux
( there are more than one way of printing, lpd and cups and each is a
separate entity ) each have different drivers ( sort of ).

the cups wrapper enables you to use the lpd drivers with cups so you
need both, here is the link to select your lpd drivers:

http://solutions.brother.com/linux/s...r_drivers.html

Here are the instructions for installing the cups wrapper, note the
instructions for SuSE about the password:

http://solutions.brother.com/linux/s...r_install.html

I have just posted this to clear any confusion you may have ( it is an
easy one to get confused with ) and I have only had a quick look, I do
not have the hardware to test this method but it looks OK to me and
should work, if you have any probs just holler back and we will try to
sort them out for you.

HTH
--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp