Brother HL2040 HOWTO

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Contents 1 Requirements 2 Tested SUSE versions 2.1 Step 1 2.2 Step 2 3 See Also

Although there are other articles available on the Internet for installing and setting up your Brother HL-2040, because I currently own one myself I thought I would write an up to date article.

Requirements

• Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) is installed (and should be in most Linux distributions)
• You are using RPMS downloaded from Brother's website
• You are using a USB connection to your printer

Tested SUSE versions

• SLED 9
• OpenSUSE 11.0
• OpenSUSE 11.1

Step 1

Allow your printer to be detected and download drivers:

• Plug in your printer and make it is turned on. Then click the OK button.
• Download brhl2040lpr-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm and cupswrapperHL2040-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm.
• Click here to download brhl2040lpr-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm
• Click here to download cupswrapperHL2040-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm

Step 2

Install and configure the drivers:

• Right click brhl2040lpr-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm and click Open with Install Software and then right click cupswrapperHL2040-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm and click Open with Install Software.

• Goto YaST and click Hardware > Printers and then click OK and you're done! You should be able to print straight away.

See Also

• http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-2040
• http://opensuse.swerdna.org/susehl2040.html
• http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/download_prn.html
• http://www.brother-usa.com/printer/modeldetail.aspx?PRODUCTID=HL2040