| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh(a)mimosa.com>
| | From: Fred Smith <fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
|
| | Have you actually downloaded and installed (and configured, as needed)
| | the drivers Brother provides? you don't actually say...
|
| I think so.
I guess not.
I have now performed step 5b from
<
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/instruction...
and it now works! Thanks for the prompting.
Note: the current web interface to CUPS doesn't exactly conform to 5b, but
with a little bit of guess-work, it worked.
I used HTTPS, not HTTP, to talk to CUPS. Some things need to be secure.
When prompted for authorization, I used my username and password (hey, I'm
a member of the wheel group). That didn't work. I had to actually delete
a browser cookie to be able to try another username. root was powerful
enough. There ought to be a log-out button, but I didn't find one.
Although configurations are supposed to carry over when you upgrade using
fedup, this part didn't seem to. Of course I might have damaged things
thrashing around.
I still don't know how to print from F18 using the printer driver on my
CentOS 5 box. It looks as if the failed attempts were using IPP (Internet
Printing Protocol). I don't care enough right now to keep experimenting.
But it would be handy so that I could print from machines that didn't have
the Brother proprietary drivers installed.
Thanks to all who helped. It sure is nice to have my printer back.