On 12/28/20 12:57 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Nothing actually prints. Not even a test page.
The printer never comes out of deep sleep.
Michael,
I've just bumped into this issue. I have a Brother HL-2300D (connected
via USB as well) that I installed about 2 years ago (when I had Fedora
30). I performed the installation using the script from the Brother
website and everything worked fine.
This morning I installed Fedora 33 (new fresh installation) and *now*
the same installation procedure I did two years ago no longer works. I
also tried installing the provided RPMs (that pull a bunch of
dependencies and 32-bit crap) but nothing worked. Same symptoms as you
mentioned. Something changed recently and Brother hasn't updated their
binaries/scripts (last update time seems 2015!).
Thankfully I found the solution here:
https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser
That worked like a charm! After your perform "make install" it will
copy just two files to:
/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertobrlaser
/usr/share/cups/drv/brlaser.drv
Once you do this, *then* you can connect your printer and Fedora will
set it up automatically. This is much better than installing all those
dependencies the Brother package wants.
HTH,
Jorge