{"id":28,"date":"2009-05-16T21:14:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T13:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depannone.com\/wordpress\/?p=28"},"modified":"2009-05-16T21:14:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T13:14:17","slug":"brother-mfc-440cn-and-the-eeepc-701","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Brother MFC-440CN and the eeePC (701)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife has been bothering me for some time about her eeePC not working with our printer.  Today I finally got around to fixing it.  Thanks to this <a href=\"http:\/\/adamfoster.net\/blog\/?p=6\">blog<\/a> I was successful.\u00a0 Having learnt from Adam&#8217;s experience I first created the directory&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code> mkdir \/etc\/printcap.local<\/code><\/p>\n<p>then copied \/etc\/printcap to \/etc\/printcap.local by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code>sudo cp \/etc\/printcap \/etc\/printcap.local <\/code><\/p>\n<p>After that I also created the directory&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code>sudo mkdir \/var\/spool\/lpd<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>Passing the command&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code>dpkg  -i  --force-all  --force-architecture mfc440cnlpr-1.0.1-1.i386.deb <\/code><\/p>\n<p>installed the lpd without a hitch.  I then installed the CUPS driver using&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code>dpkg  -i  --force-all  --force-architecture mfc440cncupswrapper-1.0.1-1.i386.deb<\/code><\/p>\n<p>and this to was successful.<\/p>\n<p>I then went into the eeePC&#8217;s printer setup and added a new printer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Type<\/strong> = Network printer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Attribute<\/strong> = &#8220;other&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Path <\/strong>= socket:\/\/192.168.x.xx:9100 <em>(you will need to put the IP address in this bit for your network setup)<\/em><\/li>\n<li> <strong>Selected <\/strong>brother for the manufacturer and then selected the <strong>MFC-440CN<\/strong> driver from the list which will be there now thanks to the steps we have previously taken.<\/li>\n<li> After this I selected  <strong>&#8216;yes&#8217; <\/strong>to print a test page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It worked. Wohoooo!<\/p>\n<p>My wife loves me again, she is now busy making up for lost time and furiously contributing to the deforestation of Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife has been bothering me for some time about her eeePC not working with our printer. Today I finally got around to fixing it. Thanks to this blog I was successful.\u00a0 Having learnt from Adam&#8217;s experience I first created the directory&#8230; mkdir \/etc\/printcap.local then copied \/etc\/printcap to \/etc\/printcap.local by&#8230; sudo cp \/etc\/printcap \/etc\/printcap.local After &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/?p=28\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brother MFC-440CN and the eeePC (701)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-printer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}