I seem to having unusual difficulties getting a printer to work on EndeavourOS. the unusual part is that it is Brother printer (normally simple to configure) and that I successfully got it, and its scanner going on my Arch install. Can’t seem to get it though, and I can’t even get localhost:631 to access things - and I can’t remember exactly what I did on the Arch install to get things going.
It would be easy enough to bypass all the (apparent) mistakes I must have made, and re-install Endeavour - after all, that’s easy! But, I had the thought that If I knew where things were located in more depth/accuracy, I might get away with “borrowing” the configuration from the Arch setup by copying the relevant files/dirs as approriate. Any helpful thoughts on that course of action?
PS - I have scripts to help rebuild the environment, so the re-install isn’t particularly intimidating, but strangely enough for guy running Arch, I am actually kinda lazy…
pacman -Q | grep cups
should see cups and cups-pdf at a minimum, if not install them
see if
systemctl status org.cups.cupsd.service is enabled and runningif not
systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd.service
systemctl start org.cups.cupsd.service OR reboot
Now it’s a matter of getting the proper driver, hopefully from AUR, and the brscanX driver installed.
Try accessing localhost:631 again.
And lastly, if this gets it going, jot this down in a linux notebook. Doing so has saved my south end of a north bound horse a lot.
I’ll give that a try between periods (watching hockey…) as well as checking what’s installed. The printer is a DCP-7060D - and it is not in the AUR last I looked. The 8065 driver can work, but I managed the right driver last time (on Arch). Seem to remember following the Archwiki for the most part - but it doesn’t seem to help this time!
Still unable to get into localhost:631 - and I’m pretty sure that’s how I got it going on Arch a few months back. I use Brave and sometimes Firefox, and get nowhere with either. Here’s the Brave feedback
Try:
Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
The other things are mostly just returning to the prompt without any information - but apparently the cups.service is not found. Which seems odd given the list-unit-files posted above…
I am getting closer to dumping it and starting from scratch in a more known condition. I figure the problems started from not just following the Archwiki and trying to do it ‘the easy way’. Did I mention that sometimes lazy factors in?
Maybe - but it gets further in than Firefox! On the fox I get blocked from localhost:631 - on Brave I get that, but I can’t make any selections (like admin or printers) without getting blocked. Oh well - tha game is over now, so maybe I’ll just blow this thing up
On Brave I get into localhost:631 main screen, but trying to anything is blocked as shown earlier.
I haven’t worried about avahi, as I have a USB connection, and don’t really need to print from anywhere else - and if I do, samba will handle what I need.
I could post the cups.conf, but it wouldn’t show anything useful now, as I did what I ‘threatened’ to do and blew this install up. It took less than an hour with all the installs and tweaking (and adding in conkys and such) so it wasn’t a big deal - except for not allowing the finding of what the heck was wrong. After the install, had no trouble getting both the printer and the scanner functions going - with the correct drivers too. Had to install a lib32 of some kind (not in front of me right now, on Arch), and brscan4 and the cupswrapper for my system from the AUR, and it fired right up (and I have cups access from localhost:631 working too in the process).
So - the problem is REsolved, if not solved, but I’ll mark it that way so people know not to worry about it
Yes you need the lib32 whatever file as i have a brother laser and it won’t install the drivers until you install that. It tells you as soon as you try to install it that it’s missing that dependency.
Yeah - I can’t really blame them for not going back to update drivers from long-ago models - would be quite a project to update them all to x86-64. I’m just happy they make drivers available for nearly everything in the first place - not all manufacturers do!
I’m still amazed at the price/value for these Brothers - peanuts for print/scan and copy!
