For some time I couldn't print from laptop Mageia5 but now that I switched my desktop to Mageia-5 also, I cannot ignore this issue anymore.
After installing Mageia-5 last night, updates and other s/w I used MCC to configure printers.
The printer Brother HL-4570CDW is connected by Ethernet-RJ45 cable to WiFi Router. It has a permanently leased address of 192.168.0.198. I use Ethernet-RJ45 cable to connect desktop to the WiFi router. The desktop does not have any other Ethernet port or 802.11 WiFi adapter. HL-4570CDW is PS-3 and PCL-6 compatible, color, auto duplex.
The MCC printer page added CUPS driver and some other one. Found the two printers on the WiFi router (there is a temporary second printer for evaluation which is purely via 802.11g path). I chose the HL-4570CDW. Driver suggested by CUPS: Brother 1200(?) something, PostScript Glutten...which I accepted.
Then I tell it to print the test page which it never does. Somewhere along the way I remember seeing "Cannot locate BRN001BA9A8F98B". I went to bed!
This morning I learned a little about CUPS and then used CUPS web interface to delete and then added the printer several times by changing various drivers from CUPS list but no success. My latest attempt was to use "Brother HL-4070CDW BR-Script3 driver". The error seems to be
processing since
Sun 15 May 2016 10:47:32 AM EDT
"Unable to locate printer "BRN001BA9A8F98B"."
Located the /etc/cups folder and inspected some files there. Here are some of these info. Looks like the back end is having trouble locating it during printing although CUPS is clearly able to browse the net and locate both printers during printers adds. I also noticed that CUPS web interface does not allow me to specify a hard IP (192.168.0.198) for the printer. This same hardware set up has worked in Fedora using generic driver.
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[root@localhost cups]#
[root@localhost cups]# pwd
/etc/cups
[root@localhost cups]#
[root@localhost cups]# l
total 84
drwxr-xr-x 5 root lp 4096 May 15 10:48 ./
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 983 May 15 10:48 subscriptions.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 983 May 15 10:32 subscriptions.conf.O
-rw------- 1 root lp 515 May 15 10:30 printers.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 4096 May 15 10:29 ppd/
-rw------- 1 root lp 524 May 15 10:24 printers.conf.O
-rw------- 1 root lp 128 May 14 19:50 classes.conf
drwxr-xr-x 111 root root 12288 May 14 19:46 ../
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 2948 May 14 19:46 cups-files.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 3685 May 14 19:46 cups-browsed.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 4408 Oct 20 2015 cupsd.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root sys 4408 Oct 20 2015 cupsd.conf.default
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 4096 Oct 20 2015 interfaces/
-rw-r----- 1 root sys 142 Oct 20 2015 snmp.conf
drwx------ 2 root lp 4096 Oct 20 2015 ssl/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 778 Sep 3 2015 pstotiff.convs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1077 Nov 14 2014 command.types
[root@localhost cups]#
[root@localhost cups]# cat printers.conf
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v2.0.4
# Written by cupsd on 2016-05-15 10:30
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING
<Printer HL4570CDW>
UUID urn:uuid:4a75902e-f0e3-3686-7c4c-4c23d6364293
Info Brother HL-4570CDW series
Location Local Printer
MakeModel Brother HL-4070CDW BR-Script3
DeviceURI lpd://BRN001BA9A8F98B/BINARY_P1
State Idle
StateTime 1463322139
Type 8433756
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
[root@localhost cups]#
[root@localhost cups]# l ppd
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 5 root lp 4096 May 15 10:48 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 4096 May 15 10:29 ./
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 27322 May 15 10:29 HL4570CDW.ppd
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 9801 May 15 10:23 HL4570CDW.ppd.O
[root@localhost cups]#
[root@localhost cups]#
[root@localhost cups]# cat ppd/HL4570CDW.ppd
*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
*% This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
*% under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
*% Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
*% any later version.
*%
*% This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
*% ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
*% FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
*% more details.
*%
*% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
*% this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
*% Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*%
*%================================================
*% Copyright(C) 2006 Brother Industries, Ltd.
*% "Brother HL-4070CDW BR-Script3"
*%================================================
*%==== General Information Keywords ========================
*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion: "1.08"
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*LanguageVersion: English
*Manufacturer: "Brother"
*PCFileName: "BR4070_2.PPD"
*Product: "(Brother HL-4070CDW)"
*PSVersion: "(3010.106) 3"
*ShortNickName: "Brother HL-4070CDW BR-Script3"
*ModelName: "Brother HL-4070CDW BR-Script3"
*NickName: "Brother HL-4070CDW BR-Script3"
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Thanks.