The printer still talks with my Mac and I can transfer via USB stick, but the poor thing is 13 years old and 'tis only a matter of time before she is no longer with us. Finances do not currently allow printer replacement (otherwise i'd have already sprung for 1+ Gigs of Ram by now) and i'm keeping this magnificent beast regardless. Does anybody know if there is a Known issue with Brother drivers in the Ubuntu repository? I swear if I didn't shave my head for comfort's sake i'd have pulled every hair out by the roots at this point.Īny ideas? Please keep in mind that I am more comfortable with GUI such as Synaptic than command-line, but I can cut-n-paste with the best of them. Am I missing something blindingly obvious here? The PC actually powers on the printer at boot, but then I can't get them to talk to each other after that-not through Printer port, not through USB. After a Ctl-Alt-Del and a normal startup, I tried to print a document.
I ran Network and DPKG in case of possible dependency issues, and no changes were made. Upon restarting in Recovery Mode, my Zorin PC detected and listed my printer by name and number on the parallel port. Once I had done that, the Setup delisted all Setup options(including the ones I had originally had for LPT, Serial etc) save Connect to Localhost-when I tried that, it failed to detect-connection failed. Upon realizing that Printer Setup did not have a USB option listed I then disconnected the USB and connected a Printer cable to the required ports. Returning to Synaptic, I downloaded the driver packet listing the printer I needed and tried again-and USB Automount for good measure. The PC attempted to detect the printer through the USB port and failed, so I used Synaptic to load an Automount for USB-no dice. Right up until I hooked up my ancient but hearty Brother HL-1440 Laser printer with 2MB onboard memory and enough toner that I have not yet replaced it. After running Zorin Lite LXDE 7 with in my slightly antique PIII 1500 MHZ processor with 512 Ram and 80 GB HD, I finally decided to retire my even more antique Mac G3 (manufactured 2000 and suffering the inevitable motherboard failure, alas) and make the PIII my main machine-and after a few additions such as Xiphos, Gnash et al, it suits my every need.
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