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Brother HL-2040 CUPS Driver for Gentoo

Updated 2008-02-27: installation from this ebuild seems to break for certain files due to some missing files. Use at your own risk. I will be working on a better version which should do away with the binary blogs in the CUPS wrapper completely.

It’s no secret that I have issues with Brother’s Linux printer drivers and their programming practices in general.

Last night, my HL-2040 laser printer went on the fritz, refusing to print anything other than test pages and diagnostic information, prompting me to once again descend into the pit of despair where RPMs rule, good code locked up to rot, and DYI IT guys like myself try to hang onto whatever shred of sanity we find.

Long story short, I created an ebuild package for the HL-2040 driver. You can download it from below:

Ebuild for Brother HL-2040 CUPS driver

To install the ebuild, simply extract it to an overlay directory of your choice; the tarball already contains a manifest, and has the correct directory hierarchy. Unmask (currently keyworded ~x86; change as required), emerge, add the printer in CUPS, and you should be good to go.

Please see HOWTO: Installing 3rd Party Ebuilds over at Gentoo Wiki for general instructions on using external ebuilds.

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3 Responses to “Brother HL-2040 CUPS Driver for Gentoo”

  1. LorencoWof Says:
    December 11th, 2010 at 08:28

    Where is admin?!
    Hope for answer

  2. AssangeMup Says:
    January 15th, 2011 at 07:13

    I need to contact site admin urgently. Can you understand me?
    By the way, anybody home?!
    bye bye ;))

  3. yangman Says:
    January 15th, 2011 at 09:46

    Unsure as to the intent of these messages, but I see no link spam so I’m going to assume they’re genuine.

    If you’re looking for the driver and ebuild mentioned in the post, I haven’t maintained them and I’m not sure if the ebuild still works. I am, however, still running the custom “driver” for my own use.

    My email address is available on the very front page (take out “/blog/…” from the URL) if you want to get in touch with me.

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