
These two related models seem to have the same firmware installed. Auto-discovered the driver by CUPS (v1.3.x) as a "Brother HL-2170W" (as the recommended driver), instead of the expected HL-2150N. Used drivers and config recommendations of Brother. Detected as "Brother HL-2040 series" and default driver is "Brother HL-2060 Foomatic/hl1250" Works 100% with Foomatic ppd as well as HL-1250.ppd. V10.04 Lucid v10.10 Maverick v11.04 NattyĪutoconfigured as "HL-2030-series" when you first attach it. Automatically identified as HL-2030 in 8.10. Installed as the HL-2060, seems to work ok.


Then launch simple-scan & scan $ simple-scan Read documentation for more details Brother Register using the following $ sudo brsaneconfig3 -a name=NAME model=DCP-9010CN ip= $ brsaneconfig3 -q (to show your DCP).
BROTHER HL 2040 PRINTER DRIVER FOR MAC INSTALL
For scanner use brscan3 from Brother website, install brscan3 and scan-key-tool. Now you have printer installedįor printer, use Ubuntu already included driver. Install packages by "sudo dpkg -i brdcp7010lpr-2.0." and "sudo dpkg -i cupswrapperDCP7010-2.0.". Create symlinks "sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/cupsys /etc/init.d/cups" "sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/cupsys /etc/init.d/lpd " and dir /usr/share/cups/model. Use recomendations and drivers from Brother. Official LPR ver 1.1.2-1, Cupswrapper ver 1.0.2-1 driversįollowed Brother instructions, needed to mkdir /usr/share/cups/DCP1000 and mkdir /var/spool/lpd/DCP1000 In Ubuntu 11.10/12.04, this is also necessary to get the scanner working.Printer and scanner both works fine after this. Scanner also works fine using brscan3 driver the driver also needs activating. ia32-libs may be required for 64 bit machines. It works like a gem when solved.īrother have released an official driver for this printer - install LPR driver first, then the cupswrapper one. V8.04.4 (Hardy), v8.10 (Intrepid), v9.04 (Jaunty)įollow carefully instructions at Brother site.
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MFC210C from Brother OR from synaptic work (synaptic is easier)įollow carefully instructions at Brother site. Use brscan2 from Brother for scanner - follow all instructions there.
