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Installed wireless printer + drivers; can't connect to print Jan 3rd 2013, 05:43 Hi all and happy new year. Today I bought a wireless printer: the Brother HL-2280DW. It works fine from my work computer (MacBook Pro) and from my girlfriend's Windows PC. I downloaded the CUPS and printer driver from the Brother web site. Eventually got them installed. The printer appears as normal in the GUI on OpenSuSE 11.4. But every time I try printing a test page, I get an error message that it can't connect. A friend who knows much more about Linux than I do spent 1 hour on the phone with me tonight. Tried many troubleshooting steps. Here's his email summary: ------------------ Running suse11.4, trying to install Brother HL-2280DW -- installed drivers from brother, install of printer went flawlessly (using downloaded drivers and everything), but cannot print. Error message is: <cannot communicate, or whatever it is> From brother's site, FAQ site: Brother Solutions Center : Brother Driver for Linux Distributions performed the following as it seemed relevant: "My distribution uses AppArmor (e.g. Ubuntu, openSUSE) and I can not print. Try to change the security software setting for cups to complain-mode (Superuser authorization will be required)Command : aa-complain cupsd" Did that; restarted cupsd, still same error message. Also tried disabling the local firewall; same error message. ----------------- Anybody have insight? Thanks in advance .... - Evan

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