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Peter M Le Mare wrote: > All of you who have responded to my earlier posting - thank you very > much. It has been most helpful. I will try to e-mail all those that > contacted me personally. > > Some of you asked about my PC's specs and printers etc. For info it is > a self built system AMD 2800+, 512Mb memory, Philips DVD, 2 X 40Gb HDD. > > The new monitor is a 19" TFT Widescreen: Printers HP laser 1018 > and Brother DC 315cn (Composite - scanner, copier, printer, with card > reader). I have not been able to get the new Brother for my colour > photo's to work - it just wont install properly and I have had long > and expensive phone calls to Brother with no success: I don't know > whether this printer will work with Linux as there doesn't seem to be > a Linux driver with it. My Broadband modem is a Sagem F@st 800 E3. > I have the brother dcp310cn, there are drivers for the dcp315cn, my website may be useful www.zleap.net. I have put my notes on there regarding this printer and how I got it working before by creating various files manually. you need both the lpr and cupswrapper driver. http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/lpr_drivers.html hope this helps If you get any more problems I will see if I can help via e-mail or perhaps the irc channel Paul -- DCLUG Meeting date Thursday 11th January 2007 - PRFC from 7:00 http://www.zleap.net http://www.openoffice.org http://www.linux.org -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html