I managed to get my Brother HL-240 cheapo, old laser printer working under Mandriva. Every time I tried to use the "Set up printer" wizard, it would report that CUPS could not be installed. After trying many things, I found Brother's driver page for Linux, and downloaded everything they have. Then I turned the printer on, and ran the wizard again. It worked. Why couldn't the error message have said "hey idiot, you have no drivers." I was under the impression that it was a problem with the CUPS program itself, since it would not install.
One piece of hardware down, 4 to go... I think my scanner can be fixed in the same manner, so that's next.
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