[cups] Waiting for the printer to become available (forever)

[Jörg Thümmler]

Am 03.02.21 um 01:07 schrieb Néstor:
>> you have installed brothers sw from
>>
>> https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadend.aspx?c=eu_ot&lang=en&prod=hll2350dw_us_eu_as&os=128&dlid=dlf006893_000&flang=4&type3=625&dlang=true
>> ??
> 
> Yes!
> 
>> there will kernel modules i assume, you can try to load manually, but
>> restart seems easier to me... after that use lsmod to look, whether the
>> brother module is loaded... something with brother or br2 might be
> 
> ' lsmod | grep br ' gives no result, nor does ' modprobe -c | grep bro
> ', `modprobe -c | grep br2`.
> 
> So I guess that the module for brother printer is not installed.
> 
>> next i wood browse to localhost:631 and have a look on the printers
>> entry here ... or add it, if's not here.
> 
> http://192.168.1.160:631/printers/HLL2350DW
> 
> This is the printer's URL, configured with Brother's official driver.
> 
> I have used the printer on a Raspberry pi 2, it was Ok but a bit slow,
> now I have upgraded to a raspberry pi 4 4GiB RAM, exactly the same
> system (I moved the microSD card into the new rpi4), reinstalled the
> driver and no luck.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

Hi,

you have the pi2 left? I would put the card back and check the drivers 
by lsmod. There should be some brother thing, best, lsmod to a file and 
then check against the pi4's lsmod...

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jth