On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 09:32 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote: > Eric Beversluis wrote: > > Help! I need my printer (Brother 1440). I've already spent two days > > trying to get it up. I've learned a good bit about how printing works on > > Linux, but haven't had success. (This printer always ran automatically > > with my old Mandrake 10.1 install.) > > > > I've just installed Core 4 on a Sony PCG-SRX77. (I also installed > > (server installation) on a Dell OptiPlex, but I haven't tried to get the > > printer going there yet.) > > > > Brother has two drivers, one for lpd and one as a > > "cupswrapper" (whatever that is). The lpd rpm needs to be installed > > before the cupswrapper rpm. When I tried to install the lpd rpm I got > > this error message: > > > > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.48389: line 2: /etc/init.d/lpd: No such file or > > directory > > error: %post(hl1440lpr-1.1.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status > > 127 > > Before installing the lpd driver you need to link lpd to cups in > /etc/init.d. Then install the lpd driver. Then install the > cups driver. But as nearly as I can tell, lpd isn't there anywhere (it doesn't show up in 'ps -e' either. I'm confused. > > -- > Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site > http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog > http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/ Backup site >
