Package Details: brother-hl2140 2.0.2_1-4

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/brother-hl2140.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: brother-hl2140
Description: LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother HL2140
Upstream URL: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/
Keywords: 2140 brother driver hl2140 printer
Licenses: custom:brother commercial license
Submitter: louipc
Maintainer: severach
Last Packager: FacuTuesca
Votes: 16
Popularity: 0.022265
First Submitted: 2009-06-05 12:58 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2016-05-13 11:53 (UTC)

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FacuTuesca commented on 2016-05-13 11:54 (UTC)

@vindicator: Added, thanks.

vindicator commented on 2016-05-13 07:19 (UTC)

depends=('cups') ; include ghostscript I installed the aur driver package and was able to add my printer, but printing just didn't work. The light would blink and I could hear the whir, but the paper-wheels wouldn't spin and the print would just stop. ***** D [13/May/2016:01:27:45 -0500] [Job 16] Wrote 1 pages... D [13/May/2016:01:27:45 -0500] [Job 16] PID 28182 (pdftops) exited with no errors. D [13/May/2016:01:27:45 -0500] [Job 16] PID 28183 (pstops) exited with no errors. D [13/May/2016:01:27:45 -0500] [Job 16] PID 28161 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops) exited with no errors. D [13/May/2016:01:27:45 -0500] [Job 16] Error: /usr/share/brother/inf/brPrintList :cannot open file !! D [13/May/2016:01:27:45 -0500] [Job 16] Error: /usr/share/brother/inf/brPrintList :cannot open file !! D [13/May/2016:01:27:45 -0500] [Job 16] Error: /usr/share/brother/inf/brPrintList :cannot open file !! D [13/May/2016:01:27:45 -0500] [Job 16] Error: /usr/share/brother/inf/brPrintList :cannot open file !! D [13/May/2016:01:27:45 -0500] [Job 16] Error: /usr/share/brother/inf/brPrintList :cannot open file !! D [13/May/2016:01:27:45 -0500] [Job 16] Error: /usr/share/brother/inf/brPrintList :cannot open file !! D [13/May/2016:01:27:45 -0500] [Job 16] Error: /usr/share/brother/inf/brPrintList :cannot open file !! D [13/May/2016:01:27:45 -0500] [Job 16] Error: /usr/share/brother/inf/brPrintList :cannot open file !! D [13/May/2016:01:27:45 -0500] [Job 16] Error: /usr/share/brother/inf/brPrintList :cannot open file !! D [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] [Job 16] which: no gs in (/usr/lib/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin) I [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] Expiring subscriptions... ----->D [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] [Job 16] /usr/share/brother/lpd/psconvert2: line 114: exec: -r: invalid option D [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] [Job 16] exec: usage: exec [-cl] [-a name] [command [arguments ...]] [redirection ...] D [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] [Job 16] Read 479 bytes of print data... D [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] [Job 16] Wrote 479 bytes of print data... D [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] [Job 16] Sent 479 bytes... D [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] [Job 16] PID 28162 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperHL2140) exited with no errors. D [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] [Job 16] Waiting for read thread to exit... D [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] [Job 16] PID 28163 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb) exited with no errors. D [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] [Job 16] time-at-completed=1463120866 D [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] cupsdMarkDirty(----S) D [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs and dirty files", busy="Printing jobs and dirty files" I [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] [Job 16] Job completed. I [13/May/2016:01:27:46 -0500] Expiring subscriptions... ***** "brPrintList" error does not appear to be an issue. Looking at "psconvert2", I saw it was looking for "gs", but I didn't have it installed. After installing "ghostscript", printing succeeded.

FacuTuesca commented on 2014-10-20 22:52 (UTC)

@GreenRaccoon23: I'm currently using it without hplip installed.

GreenRaccoon23 commented on 2014-10-20 19:58 (UTC)

This package also depends on hplip.

FacuTuesca commented on 2014-08-25 01:37 (UTC)

Adopted and updated PKGBUILD

<deleted-account> commented on 2014-03-14 19:23 (UTC)

Improved PKGBUILD

<deleted-account> commented on 2014-03-10 17:50 (UTC)

Adopted

<deleted-account> commented on 2011-09-17 00:27 (UTC)

To whom it may concern. I did a fresh install and the following steps were necessary in order to make this printer work properly: - make sure usblp module is not loaded (e. g. issue ``modprobe -r usblp'' command and add line ``blacklist usblp'' to ``/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf''); - make device node readable/writable by user, on whose behalf CUPS runs the usb backend (e. g. put ``SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTR{idProduct}=="0033", OWNER="daemon"'' to ``/etc/udev/rules.d/99-printers.rules'' (ids can be obtained from ``lsusb'', if using other product), then ``udevadm control --reload-rules'' and replug); - tell Brother's lpr/CUPS wrapper about the printer: put ``HL2140'' (or other model strings) into ``/usr/share/Brother/inf/brPrintList'' (be sure to remove anything else from that file: .install script puts irrelevant contents there!); - allow that user to modify the ``brHL2140rc'' file (e. g. say ``chown daemon /usr/share/Brother/inf/brHL2140rc''). I have an ordinary Arch system and the user running filters and backends is "daemon". The first 2 steps let CUPS to detect the printer. The last 2 steps make printing options apply.

<deleted-account> commented on 2011-07-08 21:31 (UTC)

Is this package broken? My printer does not seem to be doing anything anymore.

<deleted-account> commented on 2011-04-16 12:53 (UTC)

And I forgot to remind: /usr/share/Brother/cupswrapper/brcupsconfig* (the exact name could be model-dependent) is run by daemon:lp (not root!), so the file /usr/share/Brother/inf/br${MODEL}rc should be writable by that user (for CUPS options to apply). Thus chown daemon "/usr/share/Brother/inf/br${MODEL}rc" should be added to post_install() and post_upgrade() of .install script (that file is being rewritten in place and there is no need to make the inf directory writable). Also pre_remove() of .install script must remove brPrintList file if it eventually becomes empty: [ `cat '/usr/share/Brother/inf/brPrintList' | wc -l` = 0 ] && rm '/usr/share/Brother/inf/brPrintList' so that there are no leftover files when the last brother-* package is removed. This is not affecting the functionality though. Hope this helps. However the whole thing is very ugly and cries for rewrite. But since it is working, I don't feel enthusiastic enough to do this. I have not found all the sources either, e. g. brprintconf* binaries have hardcoded paths to brPrintList, so even pulling mutable files out of /usr seems to be not that simple.

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