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Brother USB Laser Printer

Asked by ahambidge

Hello,

I am running 11-10 and am trying to install a Brother HL2150N USB Laser printer. This particular driver is not available in the Synaptic Package Manager. I downloaded the driver from the Brother web site but on trying to install get "driver defective" message.

I have contacted Brother and they just tell me to download the driver.

Is there a solution to this problem?

Regards,

Allan :)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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ahambidge (ahambidge) said : 		#2

Hello,

Ubuntu 11.10

Regards,

Allan :)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Can you give the FULL output of the command I gave, it tells us more than just the release and is WHY I asked for what I asked for

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#4

Could you provide a copy/paste of error message.

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ahambidge (ahambidge) said : 		#5

Hello,

Sorry for the delay.

core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
Linux Compaq 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Have installed LPR and Cups driver using the command line and it installed the HL2150N printer but does not work.

Regards,

Allan:)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

cd; wget http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/brhl2150nlpr-2.0.2-1.i386.deb; sudo dpkg -i ./brhl2150nlpr-2.0.2-1.i386.deb; rm ./brhl2150nlpr-2.0.2-1.i386.deb; wget http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/cupswrapperHL2150N-2.0.2-1.i386.deb; sudo dpkg -i ./cupswrapperHL2150N-2.0.2-1.i386.deb; rm ./cupswrapperHL2150N-2.0.2-1.i386.deb

Remove any printer you may have added and restart the OS. If needed, manually add the printer

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ahambidge (ahambidge) said : 		#7

Hello,

I tried to install the Brother DEB drivers by using the Ubuntu Software Center and got a message that said the drivers were defective. I then managed to install the drivers with the command lines supplied by Brother.

This installed the HL2150N printer but it will not print.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Allan :)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#8

You don't need software centre. Just copy the whole text I gave and paste to a terminal. It will install ok.

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