Compatibility of Brother HL-3040CN colour laser printer with openSUSE 11.2 64-bit

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#1

Hi,

I have a recently purchased Brother HL-3040CN printer that I had been using under Windows XP. I’m hoping to use it on openSUSE 11.2 64-bit. Having consulted SDB:Installing a Printer - openSUSE I ran lpinfo -l -m | grep HL-3040CN as su… evidently this model is not supported.

The Brother site Brother Solutions Center : Brother Driver for Linux Distributions seems to suggest maybe there is hope… but before ploughing ahead, I wonder if anyone has experience with this. I am relatively new to Linux. Thanks, John.

#2

64bit may require a little more tweaking than a 32bit system; as the drivers look in /usr/lib rather than /usr/lib64 but we should be able to guide you on a symbolic link, to tell the drivers where to look …

if you go here

Brother Solutions Center : Brother Driver for Linux Distributions

you can see drivers for your printer

Suse uses the rpm variant;

lpr downloaded and installed and then cupswrapper installed after

as on the instructions page

Brother Solutions Center : Brother Driver for Linux Distributions

they suggest installing by

su
and then enter root password and then

rpm -ihv --nodeps (lpr-drivername)
for the lpr and then

rpm -ihv --nodeps (cupswrapper-drivername)

does that sort of get you started?

#3

Hi:

Many thanks for your suggestions. I followed your prescription (downloading the .rpm files to mp) and issued the commands exactly as you gave them. No hitches at all and the printer is functioning very nicely. John.

#4

that’s great; well done; you did very well; enjoy!