Brother MFC-7440N

[Trebuchet]

Does anyone know which cups driver will work with the Brother MFC-7440N?

 

[DutchDaemon]

Posting in Howtos & FAQs (moved)

 

[wblock@]

Does anyone know which cups driver will work with the Brother MFC-7440N?

"Host-based" printer. See this thread, particularly the link in post #8 from carlton_draught.

 

[Trebuchet]

Solved

Thank you. That did the job.

 

[wblock@]

Excellent! If you could show what you did, it would be useful for the next person with that printer.

 

[Trebuchet]

I hope that this makes it easier for anyone. This is exactly what I did to get working:

As always - make sure your ports are updated!

portsnap fetch extract

I then installed cups from ports (1.4.5)

#cd /usr/ports/print/cups
#make fetch-recursive
#make build
#make install clean

I then installed the following ports

/usr/ports/print/foomatic-filters
/usr/ports/print/foomatic-db-engine
/usr/ports/print/foomatic-db-hpijs

I then set cups to start at boot

#echo "cupsd_enable="YES"" >> ~/etc/rc.conf

After a reboot, open up a browser and navigate to "localhost:631".
Choose the "Adding Printers and Classes" link under the "CUPS for Administrators" heading.
Login with your root account.
Even though my system found my printer on the network I used the "Internet Printing Protocol (http)" to set up printer (http://192.168.x.x).
When you are asked for the driver choose to use the "Brother HL-5050 Foomatic/hl1250".

This is what worked for me. I really hope this post can save someone a headache.