Recently, I started running openSUSE 12.2 KDE. I have a USB connected Brother MFC-J6510DW printer. I downloaded, from Brother, the MFC-J6510DW driver for Linux, which I then installed, successfully. Then I went to YAST which detected the printer and then configured it.
However, whereas it lists very many Brother printer drivers, it does not list my printer’s driver, no matter how I searched.
Where does the system store such drivers - can’t find it anywhere - and why does YAST not list the one I installed?
Thank you. Now I have installed the CUPS wrapper driver package as well. This time YAST listed the driver but the test page still will not print:
E [11/Apr/2013:09:06:33 -0400] Browsing=1
E [11/Apr/2013:09:06:33 -0400] BrowseLocalProtocols=0
E [11/Apr/2013:09:06:33 -0400] BrowseRemoteProtocols=1
E [11/Apr/2013:09:06:33 -0400] BROWSE_CUPS=1
E [11/Apr/2013:09:06:33 -0400] Unable to bind socket for address [v1.::1]:631 - Address already in use.
E [11/Apr/2013:09:12:29 -0400] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file “/usr/share/cups/drv/sample.drv”!
Since, starting yesterday, I have tried numerous times and failed should I perhaps delete the printer and start over, this time with the correct driver being present?
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> Recently, I started running openSUSE 12.2 KDE. I have a USB connected
> Brother MFC-J6510DW printer. I downloaded, from Brother, the
> MFC-J6510DW driver for Linux, which I then installed, successfully.
> Then I went to YAST which detected the printer and then configured it.
>
> However, whereas it lists very many Brother printer drivers, it does
> not list my printer’s driver, no matter how I searched.
>
> Where does the system store such drivers - can’t find it anywhere -
> and why does YAST not list the one I installed?
>
> Can you enlighten me? Thank you so much.
I’m using the same driver as your printer uses on my MFC-J6710DW. I
downloaded the following two fiRpms from brothers:
Then I used YaST to install them. No problems. printer is working on
openSUSE 12.2 and 12.3 with CUPS 1.5.4 and worked with earlier also.
What version of CUPS are you using?
Did you configure the printer in CUPS?
Did you bring in the driver from the Brothers Driver CDROM. I seem to
remember thats what I had to do in YaSt-->Hardware-->Printer before I
set up CUPS>
Also the Brothers documentation for installing the driver and Scanner
are very good. I found one problem in the original scanner install
document, The forgot the Product ID parameter in the installation
command.
I have not tried the FAX yet since my system is running on a fiber
optics network and I have not had past epson MFC faxes work, no time to
test that.
I looked at the Brothers site and your printer and mine have the same
packages and dates.
The drivers are now installed and YAST shows the printer configured:
**Local MTC-J6510DW Brother with driver Brother MFC-J6510DW CUPS **as the **Default
**But it still will not print. I think it might be due to the many times faulty attempts. I was thinking of deleting the printer from YAST and redoing the set-up but then I get this message:
**The selected configuration would be deleted immediately and cannot be restored **which makes no sense to me…why can I not delete the printer and then start over, other than downloading the drivers and installing them which has already been done.
Are you a member of the ‘lp’ group? You can check from a terminal window with
groups
or via YaST >> Security and Users >> User and Group Management.
**The selected configuration would be deleted immediately and cannot be restored **which makes no sense to me…why can I not delete the printer and then start over, other than downloading the drivers and installing them which has already been done.
What do you think?
I’ve never seen that error. Anyway, to start over again, open a terminal and do
As far as I know, that message actually means you cannot undelete the printer. In other words, the printer configuration does not go to the trash bin, it becomes gone. It does not mean you can’t create another one of the same kind. I had problems with an HP and ran into the same message. I decided that if it didn’t work, I didn’t need it anyway and deleted it. I then immediately installed another instance of the same printer without problems.
**Thank you, it worked! **Printed a beautiful test page.
What’s this group lp? I checked with the command groups, before and after deleting and reinstalling. In both cases I got, myself: users, video and as root: root. Anyway, it’s working now.
What’s this group lp? I checked with the command groups, before and after deleting and reinstalling. In both cases I got, myself: users, video and as root: root. Anyway, it’s working now.
Unfortunately, I found that, whereas it prints a pretty test page from YaST, it will not print anything else, e.g., some page of my personal data.
What I find in CUPS and in YaST is:
▼ Queue Name ▼ Description Location Make and Model Status
Brother_MFC-J6510DW Brother MFC-J6510DW Brother MFC-J6510DW CUPS
Idle - “Printer is now connected.”
MFCJ6510DW Brother MFC-J6510DW with driver Brother MFC-J6510DW CUPS
Brother MFC-J6510DW CUPS Idle - "Printer not connected, will retry in 30
seconds
The first one gives me the test page. The second one, obviously, plays dead. Should I delete the second one, would that perhaps fix the inability to just do an ordinary print? Any ideas? Thank you.
And I have not even installed the other driver yet, the one to scan or copy…that will be my next struggle. Must say, though, in every other way I am very happy with my change to Linux.
Thank you. Now it’s all working. I assumed that where there’s only one, local, printer it would be implicit that that is the default, never thought about it…apparently, that is not the case.
And I have not even installed the other driver yet, the one to scan or copy…that will be my next struggle. Must say, though, in every other way I am very happy with my change to Linux.
For scanning to work, you will need to add the user to the ‘lp’ group so that you have the required R/W access.