Brother 32-bit Status in Leap-16

English Hardware
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Hi all! I’m not seeing any new info related to what will happen/is happening with respect to Brother printers (mine is MFC-7360N) that require 32-bit drivers from brother. Is there a known workaround or some ‘compatibility layer’ tool that’s needed or. . .? Thanks - - robert

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@robhwill the applicable package to install is listed here https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/16.0/html/release-notes-leap-160/index.html#id-steam

  • 32-bit execution requires installing grub2-compat-ia32 and rebooting."
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Thanks @malcolm for the reassurance. I glanced over that while reading because it was in the section marked ‘Steam’ and it specifically referenced grub2. Nice to know it applies system-wide!
Thanks Again! OBTW: What are we coming to? 35 pages for Release Notes. . . wow!

      • robert
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Beginning with my current 15.6 installation, I’ve had no 32bit anything installed. My Brother HL5470DW laser and MFC8910DW all-in-one are connected via ethernet and using the “driverless” drivers for printing and scanning, no need I’m aware of any more for Brother’s own downloadables.

# zypper --no-refresh se -s -i print | egrep -v 'debug|devel|srcp|openSUSE-20' | egrep 'x86|noarch'| sort -f
i+ | libchromaprint1              | package | 1.4.3-150200.3.2.1              | x86_64 | UpdateSLE
i+ | libQt5PrintSupport5          | package | 5.15.12+kde151-150600.3.6.1     | x86_64 | UpdateSLE
i+ | OpenPrintingPPDs             | package | 4.0.0.2-1.33                    | noarch | OSS
i+ | OpenPrintingPPDs-ghostscript | package | 4.0.0.2-1.33                    | noarch | OSS
i+ | OpenPrintingPPDs-postscript  | package | 4.0.0.2-1.33                    | noarch | OSS
i+ | printer-driver-brlaser       | package | 6+git20230220.2a49e32-bp156.1.2 | x86_64 | OSS
#
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Driverless printing is only supported by more recent models. The MFC-7360N, released around 2011, does not support this feature.