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Brother HL-2140 USB printer not recognized in printer set up in Ubuntu 9.10 alpha 4

Asked by Richard Garvin

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic does not recognize a USB printer at all. Like it does not exist. Can put a USB device
in any port and it is recognized. Have dual boot with Vista, Vista recognizes. For some reason hopefully
something simple it just does not see it. Brother HL-2140. Usually Ubuntu just recognizes and sets up
on own. No problem finding driver. I cannot set the printer to use USB it keeps saying it is LPT1. Have did
all the unplug, replug, reboot and so on. Like it is not even there. Look below it is there. For some reason it doe's
not want to see it. Any help out there please.

rick@ubuntu:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 12f7:0311 Memorex Products, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 058f:6377 Alcor Micro Corp. Multimedia Card Reader
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bc2:3001 Seagate RSS LLC
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04f9:0033 Brother Industries, Ltd
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

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Neil (goofandfroggie) said : 		#1

HI
 I had a problem with Brother printer, would not in stall drivers fully.
 Did you download the drivers from Brother? if not giver that a try, I needed the dcp135ccupswrapper-1.0.1-1.i386.deb & dcp135clpr-1.0.1-1.i386.deb for my printer.....BUT you will need the ones for you printer. the dcp135clpr is the first to install as the ccupswrapper needed the dependencies from it. then you plug in your printer and power etc and hope it works. you may have to go thought Administration - Printing and set it up thought there. making a new printer.
 I rang Brother Australia and they were very helpful and got my printer working (well my Sons) that is always an option!! lol
I have the info they gave me but it is on his computer if you can't get it working after downloading the drivers etc. let me know and I will send you the prompts to use in terminal.
Regards Neil
sorry that I'm not to helpful.

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Neil (goofandfroggie) said : 		#2

Hi again
This was the answer to my problem of not being able to find printer
put this in terminal
sudo mkdir /usr/share/cups/model
Hope this helps
Neil

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#3

Please try all the suggestions here:

http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-2140

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Richard Garvin (garvinrick4) said : 		#4

This is the final salution that ended up with the fix.

terminal Type: lsusb (will see dev #'s and bus #'s for computer)

sudo rmmod usblp
sudo aa-complain cupsd
sudo chgrp lp /dev/bus/usb/3 digit bus #/3 digit device #
sudo chmod 664 /dev/bus/usb/3digit bus#/3 digit device #

Go to graphic interface to add printer manually System>Administration>Printing> Click New
                                                                                                                or CTRL +N
System will then find USB device and driver if necassary.

Linux instructions Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Alpha 4

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bcrook (brian-w-crook) said : 		#5

Thanks garvinrick4,

This method also works on the Samsung 4521F on Karmic Alpha 6