[arch-general] troubles with Brother HL-2040

[Thayer Williams]

On 5/15/08, Ryan Sims <rwsims at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just installed Arch on my print server at home; it had been running
>  another distro and chugging along happily.  It's got a Brother HL2040
>  attached to it via USB, and I use cups to share it around the network.
>
>  Well, I got the server is up and running so I followed the instruction
>  in the wiki[1]  for installing the printer.  Everything seems to have
>  gone ok, the printer was detected and installed correctly, hooray.
>  However, it doesn't print the test page (or anything else).  When I
>  ask it to print, the printer wakes up and starts spinning, thinks for
>  a couple seconds, and then goes back to sleep.

Are you trying to print directly from the server, or from a remote PC
on the network?  Get it working locally first before worrying about
anything else.

Are you running a GUI on the server? If so, what does
http://localhost:631/printers show for printer status?