BROTHER 2170W UBUNTU DRIVER

I thought this was a driver issue and wanted to get the correct driver from Brother - which would hopefully solve the slow printing problem. MFCC from Brother or from synaptic. Installation of the drivers from the CD was grudgingly slow. Works perfecly in i I was literally and seriously done in 5 minutes after spending 3 hours reading the forums posts and downloading the drivers. Needed "--force-architecture" as the debs are only for 23bit.

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Installed as the HL, seems to work ok. Printer and scanner both works fine after this.

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Thanks so much to Maximus and to the forums administrator s. Sign up using Email and Password. And the static IP is set if you need to update the wireless info at any point in the 2170ww. Connecting the printer to the wireless AP was a breeze — simply connect the printer via wire hbuntu either the PC via USB or the router via ethernet and do the config using either the web interface built into the printer or the software.

Instructions at Brotherchose Debian drivers.

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I only had to look so far as this post. I'm running on Ubuntu The light is not blue and is off.

Bug # “Brother HLW [PCL XL error]” : Bugs : cups package : Ubuntu

In your browser, go your printer's IP address. August 9th, Initially scanner only works if xsane is 2170a as root sudo xsane. Instructions on how to get C Shell can be found Here. This solves my general printing slowness as pages go to the printer immediately.

Now wait until you get instruction in the browser: Connect the ethernet cable to the wireless router and the printer In the browser type: I kbuntu find any evidence at all of anyone getting these printers working across USB, so it seems, if you want to use a Brother with Linux, you have to configure it to be wireless with a Windows box, which is not an option for me.

But I left it as it was for a brotther, until I finally got tired of waiting 20 minutes per page to print shipping labels for 15 boxes one day. Citing a fault in the cups drivers for at the least, this printer modela solution was explained using a generic driver instead of the [presumably broken] cups driver: I have only tested one page, probably should test a few more complex graphics but for now I'm a very happy camper.

Some parts that were important for me: I followed his advice precisely and now my pdf files are printing great. This particular laserjet is ubunu Wifi enabled cousin of the above mentioned model HLN.

Text worked okay but printing graphics took a long time. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.

Install the drivers from the Brother website. You need to log in to change this bug's status.

Brother HL-2170W wifi

So now, a few months later, I am a Linux user once again and ran back into the same problem: I have a Brother laser printer HL which wasn't on the printer driver's list, so instead I used the driver for HL and it worked.

Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. I read a lot of mixed stories about this printer, but at the time Lucid August 29th, 5.