Brother HL-2030 Printer on Debian
Just bought a new mono laser printer, the Brother HL-2030 and setting it up on Debian was simplicity itself thanks to excellent driver support.
Hop over to the Brother Linux Driver Homepage and follow the appropriate links to download the LPR and CUPS wrapper drivers.
As the FAQ warns, you’ll need a temporary symlink to get the CUPS wrapper to install:
$ dpkg -i brhl2030lpr_1.1.2-3_i386.deb
$ ln -s /etc/init.d/cupsys /etc/init.d/cups
$ dpkg -i cupswrapperhl2030_1.0.0-1_i386.deb
$ rm /etc/init.d/cups
and you’re done.
The drivers are GPL too. No closed source binaries here. Well done Brother! It’s a great printer too and very reasonably priced.
February 24th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
AFAICS only the cups wrapper is open sourced. It still relies on the closed source lpr driver, which I could not find a source download link for.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
just what i needed! thanks!