So, check out the pre-required procedures here. Well, you can do them afterwards having spent 2 hours trying to work out what was wrong like I did, but that way is not so much fun. Once of the tiny, easily overlooked links on the driver download pages is to a list of pre-required procedures that you need to do before the driver install will fully work. So open up a terminal window and cd to your Downloads/ folder.Īlternatively, navigate to the Downloads/ folder in the graphical interface, right click on a blank space in the window and select 'Open in Terminal' to open a terminal window in the correct place. deb to use GDebi, but that will hide potential errors and leave you wondering why things aren't working. Yes, you can install graphically just by clicking on the.
You're going to need to open up a terminal window for this one. Installing the Brother HL-3040CN linux drivers Once that's done, repeat the process for the "CUPSwrapper printer driver package". Just save it to your downloads folder for now. You'll need to install both the "LPR printer driver (deb package)" and the "CUPSwrapper printer driver (deb package)".įirstly, click on the "LPR printer driver", accept the EULA on the next page.and the driver should automatically start downloading. To get the drivers for the HL-3040CN, visit this page. Downloading the Brother HL-3040CN linux drivers Let's go through this one step at a time. For instance, they don't have all the info on one page and they also tell you to set a connection setting that will potentially break printing if your printers IP address changes. The instructions on the Brother printer driver pages do actually work (just about) but they're not exactly crystal clear. Open and then execute “Modify Printer”, and then set the destination.For this guide we're going to be looking at the installation of drivers for the Brother HL-3040CN laser printer and how to set up the connection to get it to print over the network.
ar vx yourmodelcupswrapper-1.0.Ĩ. In case that the machine is connected with Wired LAN/Wireless LAN, set the destination as below. Please connect printer to PC with USB or Wired LAN/Wireless LAN.ĥ. Put the 2 downloaded files (LPR and CupsWrapper) in the root (put them below “/”).
pacman -S lib32-glib2 cups ghostscript gsfonts cups-pdf poppler a2ps If these items are not installed, please install these items. If these lines are commented out, please delete “#”, and then save that, and then execute the following command.Ģ. Make sure the following items are installed: Please check if lines from “” to “Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist” are not commented out. 1. Check if “multilib” is not commented out.
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