Brother HL-L2340DW -

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hello Bob.

On 02/04/2015 08:55 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Has anyone installed an HL-L2340DW printer? If so I am curious to
> know what driver you used? I prefer installing via CUPS but find no
> driver in the HL2300 series. Brother apparently has none that I can
> find.
>
> It prints from our wireless LAN using the CUPS driver for the
> HL-2170W but I am not certain that is the best choice. This is a
> Fedora-21/64bit Linux/XFCE updated computer if that matters.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated,

i have installed brother drivers for cups on other systems and
have found this may work for you.


from brother site;

  http://support.brother.com/g/b/countrytop.aspx?c=us&lang=en

selecting downloads, goes to;

  http://support.brother.com/g/b/productsearch.aspx?c=us&lang=en&content=dl

with "search by model name" = HL-L2340DW, you will get;

http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hll2340dw_us_eu_as

selecting (x) linux and (x) linux (rpm) and clicking [search],
you get;

http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hll2340dw_us_eu_as&os=127

selecting 'generic cupswrappeer printer driver (rpm package)

leads to;

http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadend.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hll2340dw_us_eu_as&os=127&dlid=dlf101126_000&flang=4&type3=10035

where you see;

  [2] Read before downloading.

and click on;

      Notes before downloading

to see;

      Before the Installation

center click on above leads to:

http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/before.html?c=us&lang=en&prod=hll2340dw_us_eu_as&redirect=on

to see more info about installing.

after reading, close and return to previous page continue reading;

      Only installation via the command line interface (terminal) is
        supported.
      Only English versions of drivers are available.
      The information on the websites does not guarantee the operation
        of Brother Linux drivers in all users' operating environments.
      Connecting more than one machine with the same model number is
        not supported.

read the;

   [3] eula

clicking the agree, give you;

http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadhowto.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hll2340dw_us_eu_as&os=127&dlid=dlf101126_000&flang=4&type3=10035

which is 'how to install page', and if using firefox, you get a
window to save;

  brgenml1cupswrapper-3.1.0-1.i386.rpm

_now_, if you want to eliminate all the crap i went thru to show
you how i found it, just click the last url. ((GBWG))

hth.


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