Installing Brother DCP-540CN Printer on Arch-Linux (32 bit)
Saturday, April 18th, 2009I really like my Brother MFP, and its even better that it works across a network and on Linux too! here’s how to get it installed on Arch.
I really like my Brother MFP, and its even better that it works across a network and on Linux too! here’s how to get it installed on Arch.
I had a lot of trouble in the past using the graphical front end for xmltv in Ubuntu, and ended up running the whole thing from the command line. This is how:
Install xmltv: (more…)
Been an Ubuntu fan for over three years, but have always tried out the other distros. Until now I was not ready to try out Arch, it looked to geeky and to difficult, but Ubuntu/Xubuntu was starting to get to bulky and bloated, and I had started to lean towards lightweight installations, and console programs as a resource.
So Arch it had to be. I downloaded the latest release for hard drive installation, the core version from here, created a spare partition on my hard drive and set to..
I am not going to go through all the installation and configuration, just those points that I had to work at. For full details read and follow the Arch Beginners Guide. (more…)