[KLUG Members] install Brother printer in Fedora 4

[Eric Beversluis]

Solved! (with help from fedora-list): The key is to follow Brother's
instructions about creating a symbolic link. What was seriously
misleading was the instruction Brother gave on a separate page,
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/lpr_drivers.html,

saying,

"To use this driver, you must ensure that the LPR printing system is
installed and running on your Linux distribution."

EB

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 19:03 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> As nearly as I can make out from the Brother pages, I need to first
> install a special lpr (lpd) driver and then a cupswrapper (whatever that
> is). (http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html) Prior to
> installing the lpr driver, they say, I have to have lpd running. But I
> can't figure out how to do that. 
> 
> I think I should be able to go to Desktop, System Settings, Printing and
> select LPD there somehow. But the option to enable LPD protocol is
> grayed out. Or stop CUPS with '/etc/init.d/cups stop' and start lpd with
> '/etc/init.d/lpd start'. But the latter command won't hunt.
> 
> My RedHat 8 Bible suggests that I should find the lpd startup script
> in /etc/init.d. CUPS and a bunch of other are there, but no lpd. Is this
> outdated info wrt Fedora 4?
> 
> This is all frustrating and seemingly a move backward in making Linux
> user friendly, since, in Mandrake 10.1, my Brother printer was ID'd and
> ran automatically.
> 
> EB
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