Hi, I figured out how to install a Brother MFC-930CDN over the LAN network, but I still cannot print.
Here is the problem.
This is a Japanese Brother printer. I can use it in Debian, but I recently switched to Artix and I cannot complete the installation.
Since there were no drivers available for Arch, I took the two following files from my Debian installation:
- brmfc940cdn.ppd
- brlpdwrappermfc930cdn
I copied them respectively in /usr/share/ppd/cupfilters and /usr/lib/cups/filters, then I changed the owner and group to root (as they were in Debian).
Now, when I try to print a test page, I get this:
ID Name User Size Pages State
Brother_MFC-930CDN-79 Unknown Withheld 1k Unknown completed at Thu 21 Jan 2021 11:26:38 AM JST
I wonder if I have to edit the ppd file or something. (Or worse, if my procedure is completely wrong.)
Any help would be appreciated...
Your way is obviously wrong.
Driver for archlinux is in AUR, install them.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brother-mfc-930cdn/
Thank you alium. Now I remember why I tried with the debian files instead fo the arch ones...
With
yay -S brother-mfc-930cdn
I get:
error downloading sources: brother-mfc-930cdn
one license file is changed, but nobody changed md5sum in PKGBUILD. i build the package, you can download it from https://github.com/alium/share/blob/master/brother-mfc-930cdn-1.1.2_2-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst and install with pacman -U
edit: if yay failed,you can still download PKGBUILD from AUR and modify him and build manually with makepkg command.
Thank you alium, it worked!