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  • Metz@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldIt's OK if you cry
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    7 months ago

    The driver shows up as “cups + gutenprint” and as far i can tell there is no other. so i guess that is already the one and only available driver.

    and i have to correct myself, it is a Canon, not a Brother. Canon MX300 from 2007.

    I mean it is not that big of a deal anyway. there is a single Windows machine left in this household that i can use for print jobs. and yeah, maybe i could use it as print server, that is actually a interesting idea lol.


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    7 months ago

    Printer are worse. try to get a decade old brother to print more than a half page without completely freezing and needing a hard restart. driver is unmaintained unfortunately.

    on Windows the printer works perfect though. which makes me quite unhappy :|

    wifi on the other hand is not a problem i can remember. even on a 15 year old laptop, the AUR has a driver that it extracts from a ancient .deb and then patches it to make it work with modern kernels. lovely.