No support for my printer

Plasticstraweater · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2024 Posts: 20

Hello,

I use a Brother HL-L8260CDW printer but the issue here is that there are no drivers for the printer and the only available drivers for linux are rpm and deb both of which might not support gentoo (the os) as rpm might be designed for fedora (etc) and deb for debian and ubuntu (etc).
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2025 4:51 pm Post subject:

Plasticstraweater,

The Interwebs say that the Brother HL-L8260CDW supports wifii direct.
If that's true, it also supports CUPs driverless printing, which is the way everything is going now.
That is ... no driver required.

You can unpick an RPM with app-arch/rpm2targz and a deb with app-arch/deb2targz.
Then install the bits by hand into /usr/local. Not into /usr as that belogs to portage.
That not to so you will have the correct versions of libraries, or even some of them at all.

The path of leas resistance is CUPs driverless printing and see what happens.
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