Brother MFC 215c printing in Suse 10.2

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Andy Callaghan.
Categories: Linux, Tips and tricks.

This may be very specific all of a sudden, but I've been having a few problems installing my Brother MFC 215c printer on Linux.

To aid anyone that needs to know, this is how ya do it…

  1.  Download the CUPS wrapper for the driver.
  2. Download the LPR printer driver.
  3. Simply double click LPR driver to install
  4. Install the wrapper using these commands:
  • Hit Alt-F2 to get the run dialoug
  • Type in "  konsole –type=su   "
  • When asked, enter in root password.
  • Change to the director of the downloaded rpm wrapper using the command " cd /home/andy/ " for example.
  • "   rpm -ihv -nodeps MFC210Clpr-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm     "
  • After that last command hit Alt-F2 again, type in 'Cups'
  • Go to the 'Administration' tab at the top.
  • Click 'Add this printer' next to the MFC 210C option.

You're done!