My computer is being mean to me again.
I have this printer, see, and from time to time I like to print things. With the printer. This means connecting the printer to my computer, which is simply not the done thing these days it seems.
The printer is a Brother HL-L3230CDW, which the Brother website would like me to think doesn't exist. There's an FAQ for a different printer describing setting it up in CUPS with the web interface, and it makes everything sound nice and easy. But of course that's for a different printer - my printer's "Connection" field does not contain the word ipp:// or ipps:// so I ought not click continue.
Of course, Brother only thinks my printer doesn't exist because I'm looking at the Hong Kong version of their website. The Australian version is all fancy so it struggles to run on my little netbook, but there is a Linux FAQ section for my printer. Nothing about printing not working after setup, though.
See, I already set up my printer on my other computer a few days ago, with the help of an Arch Linux package someone made to install the driver. How nice of them. And after installing the driver I went through the CUPS interface to add the printer, ignoring the warning about drivers being deprecated because what am I supposed to do about that if my printer doesn't want to do IPP Everywhere??? and yay it worked.
But on this computer. It doesn't work.
What did I do to deserve this