Unable to get a Brother networked printer to work under Linux

[Larry Gagnon]

Using VectorLinux and a Brother MFC-465CN networked printer. This printer
is supposed to work fine in Linux, according to
http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-MFC-465-cn.
This printer is networked into my router, IP address 192.168.0.104 and I
have set the router so that IP address is static. The printer works fine
with my wife's Windows machine. I have downloaded the appropriate Linux
CUPS driver for the printer from the Brother website and CUPS now sees the
driver. CUPS also sees the Printer as URI socket://192.168.0.104. Print
jobs just seem to disappear into the ether however, absolutely no
kickstarting the printer whatsoever. I have also tried a different CUPS
URI such as lpd://192.168.0.104/binary_p1 and ipp://192.168.0.104 to no
avail. I do not have any firewall on this machine. There are no obvious
error messages in /var/log/cups.

Any ideas on where to start diagnozing this problem would be greatly
appreciated.


Larry

[Steven Kurylo]

Post by Larry Gagnon
Using VectorLinux and a Brother MFC-465CN networked printer. This printer
is supposed to work fine in Linux, according to
http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-MFC-465-cn.
This printer is networked into my router, IP address 192.168.0.104 and I
have set the router so that IP address is static. The printer works fine
with my wife's Windows machine. I have downloaded the appropriate Linux CUPS
driver for the printer from the Brother website and CUPS now sees the
driver. CUPS also sees the Printer as URI socket://192.168.0.104. Print
jobs just seem to disappear into the ether however, absolutely no
kickstarting the printer whatsoever. I have also tried a different CUPS URI
such as lpd://192.168.0.104/binary_p1 and ipp://192.168.0.104 to no avail.
I do not have any firewall on this machine. There are no obvious error
messages in /var/log/cups.
Any ideas on where to start diagnozing this problem would be greatly
appreciated.

What kind of print server is it? Thats probably the issue, getting the URI
right. Most print servers support lpd, however they can really different
URIs

[Clint Rose]

Post by Steven Kurylo

Post by Larry Gagnon
Any ideas on where to start diagnozing this problem would be greatly
appreciated.

What kind of print server is it? Thats probably the issue, getting the URI
right. Most print servers support lpd, however they can really different
URIs

I don't remember why, but I ended up having to us an ipp like this for
my MFC-7820N
ipp://192.168.1.90:631/ipp

hth

- Clint

[Steven Kurylo]

Post by Larry Gagnon
Using VectorLinux and a Brother MFC-465CN networked printer. This printer
is supposed to work fine in Linux, according to
http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-MFC-465-cn.
This printer is networked into my router, IP address 192.168.0.104 and I
have set the router so that IP address is static. The printer works fine
with my wife's Windows machine. I have downloaded the appropriate Linux CUPS
driver for the printer from the Brother website and CUPS now sees the
driver. CUPS also sees the Printer as URI socket://192.168.0.104. Print
jobs just seem to disappear into the ether however, absolutely no
kickstarting the printer whatsoever. I have also tried a different CUPS URI
such as lpd://192.168.0.104/binary_p1 and ipp://192.168.0.104 to no avail.
I do not have any firewall on this machine. There are no obvious error
messages in /var/log/cups.
Any ideas on where to start diagnozing this problem would be greatly
appreciated.

Sorry, I misunderstood. The printer has its own network server and I see
you followed:
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/instruction_prn1c.html

And I see you checked the log. So the log actually says it sent the job to
the printer successfully?

You could try hooking the printer up with usb to see if that works, then you
know the driver portion is fine and its in the network config.

[DR]

Post by Larry Gagnon
Using VectorLinux and a Brother MFC-465CN networked printer. This
printer is supposed to work fine in Linux, according to
http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-MFC-465-cn.
This printer is networked into my router, IP address 192.168.0.104 and I
have set the router so that IP address is static. The printer works fine
with my wife's Windows machine. I have downloaded the appropriate Linux
CUPS driver for the printer from the Brother website and CUPS now sees
the driver. CUPS also sees the Printer as URI socket://192.168.0.104.
Print jobs just seem to disappear into the ether however, absolutely no
kickstarting the printer whatsoever. I have also tried a different CUPS
URI such as lpd://192.168.0.104/binary_p1 and ipp://192.168.0.104 to no
avail. I do not have any firewall on this machine. There are no obvious
error messages in /var/log/cups.
Any ideas on where to start diagnozing this problem would be greatly
appreciated.
Larry

For what its worth, I have a Brother HL-5250DN. The URI I am using is:

socket://192.168.0.25:9100

Deid

Post by Larry Gagnon
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