Brother has an installation script:
This works on Fedora 42/Gnome. On Fedora43 Bugsie it installs but the printer is not working, nonstop printing empty pages. The network printer works find in Windows7
Is Fedora not compatible with Brother HL-3040CN? it is not in the PPD list either. Why is printing in FOSS so messy?
By défaut on linux printers are normally auto detected and added.
Is your printer on the wifi network or attached by a cable ?
Just to start problem solving
Switch off and disconnected your printer
Go into the control panel and printers section. If you can see your printer in the available devices, remove it. So you are back to a printer free system.
Then connect, power up your printer.
Wait a few mins for it to auto detect, you should get a message on the screen once détecter.
Go back into the control printers and make sure yours is listed
Right click and make it the défaut
Now try a print.
I have done all of this without the script from the supplier.
Has that fixed the issue or not ?
Should you experiance any difficulties
Steps to Install on Fedora
Go to Brother Support:
My page is different to yours as its in english but its the same base file, except I have also cups drivers and lpr drivers available.
Choose Linux (rpm) as your OS
Download the Driver Install Tool
Open Terminal: Navigate to your Downloads folder.
Run Installer: Use sudo ./
or
sudo dnf install
Answer the on screen questions to complete the installation.
Have you tried CUPS?
This is a bit of a co-incidence!
I’ve just been through this on RHEL 9 (and Fedora is part of that family)… I tried to find my Brother MFC in RHEL 9 Desktop (Gnome - it’s a VM in KVM) - it didn’t have a specific driver for my MFC-9335CDW - so - I tried another similar numbered Brother driver - and the test page worked…
Ubuntu (and Mint too) just finds my printer and installs it :
And - one of my customers has bunch of Brother MFC spread out across the whole state of Western Australia (it’s huge - about 3 x Texas) - and a colleague is having a devil of a time on RHEL9 CUPS getting them to work (they sorta mostly work on the old Oracle Linux 7 CUPS servers - but that’s because they have the vendor specific RPM files installed - but - they’re ONLY 32 bit i386 - not x86_64 - brother don’t offer 64 bit version of their RPM driver packages).
Good luck! Driver support is one of the reasons I dumped Fedora as a potential option last time I distro-hopped - I didn’t want to have to add RPM-Fusion repo just to get accelerated GPU support… Pop!_OS, Mint, Ubuntu all offer that out of the box (Pop!_OS probably best at GPU support) - but my Ubuntu 24.04 works just fine with the OSS AMD drivers for my GPU (Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M)…
If linux was normal than there would not be this forum.
You just send me the link that was in my question. Thanks!
Do you have a Brother HL 3040CN adn Fedora 43 Budgie and got prinintg working?
Is there something else than cups?
But mine was to the american site and had more options available than your European and the other 2 parts gave cups drivers instead.
No i dont buy brother printers, too many problems in the past with them and fedora linux. I prefer epson and mint.
Yes there is lpd.
And CUPS will use LPD - just to confuse things further 
Just had a look at the list of Brother drivers that RHEL9 ships with…
There’s no HL-3040CN - but there is HL-3070-CW… You could try the postscript/foomatic version of the driver that RHEL include…
I setup my Brother MFC-9335CDW on RHEL9 using another driver from RHEL - Brother MFC-9320CW and it worked for me (i.e. test page printed just fine)… Don’t need to do that in Ubuntu…
Anyway - I setup a printer on RHEL9 using the CUPS “Add Printer” WEB UI wizard - but its a fake non-existent printer so I can’t test it…
Screenshots of “http://localhost:631/” (need to be root) adding a printer (HL-3070CW) :
I guess I could try and see if that “Connection” works with my own Brother - but I don’t want to risk spitting out a hundred pages of guff :
And new queue in CUPS (along with the existing one - i.e. an MFC-9335CDW but using the MFC-9320CW “driver”) :
And the printer settings in Gnome Settings (on RHEL9) after installing using the CUPS WEB UI :
Furthermore …
I did exactly the same / similar thing in RHEL 10, running Gnome 4x (RHEL10 is “based” on Fedora 40) - RHEL10 in a QEMU/KVM guest…
Again - there’s no specific driver for my MFC-9335CDW…
But there’s the foomatic / postscript driver for MFC-9320-CW…
Used “http://localhost:631” and user root in CUPS WEB UI to “Add Printer”…
Used the URI for my Brother device socket://10.0.0.112:9100 as the Connection string for my network printer (can’t remember if that’s the ethernet, or wifi, IP address - but that doesn’t matter).
Smash the Maintenance button, then select “Print Test Page” and (it took longer than it normally does on Ubuntu on bare metal) out plops a CUPS print test page - in colour on A4…
I cannot start the browser as root:
$ sudo vivaldi
[12027:12027:1220/101629.074462:ERROR:chromium/content/browser/zygote_host/zygote_host_impl_linux.cc:106] Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See ``https://crbug.com/638180``.
What do I enter here?
Thanks yes I see that now , Thanks! How do I install hl3040cncupswrapper-1.1.2-2.i386.rpm and hl3040cnlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm on Fedora 43 Budgie?
$ sudo dnf install ./hl3040cncupswrapper-1.1.2-2.i386.rpm --nogpgcheck
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: conflicting requests
nothing provides hl3040cnlpr needed by hl3040cncupswrapper-1.1.2-2.i386 from @commandline
You can try to add to command line:
–skip-broken to skip uninstallable packages
$ sudo dnf install ./hl3040cnlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm --nogpgcheck
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Installing:
hl3040cnlpr i386 1.1.2-1 @commandline 4.6 MiB
Transaction Summary:
Installing: 1 package
Total size of inbound packages is 597 KiB. Need to download 0 B.
After this operation, 5 MiB extra will be used (install 5 MiB, remove 0 B).
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Running transaction
Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed.
Warning: skipped OpenPGP checks for 1 package from repository: @commandline
- package hl3040cnlpr-1.1.2-1.i386 does not verify: no digest
Sorry - we’re each seeing different things…
I’d NEVER EVER EVER run my browser as root…
What I meant by “root” was the CUPS login prompt that pops up when you “Add Printer” in the CUPS "http://localhost:631/ web interface… i.e. login as root and use the root password - there are probably better ways of allowing an elevated user access to create printers - but I’m lazy and never found a need…
Don’t run your browser as root - NEVER EVER run your browser as root…
I thought 'cause you’re running Fedora - you must know stuff…
Curious why the choice of Fedora? or did you inherit a Fedora system from someone else?
I’d never recommend that to a newbie… Like everyone else on here says : “Linux Mint” (e.g. LMDE7 - which found my exact printer model and installed the driver - not when I wanted to add a printer - but when the LMDE7 installer “installed Linux”)…
Since Ubuntu 15 - installing the O/S has just kinda scanned my network - found my brother printer and installed the driver for it… Without me lifting a finger…
I don´t know the roots password. It was never set at installation. there is sudo su however.
Do I have to set a root password manually to install a printer?
I use root and the root passsord for CUPS.
It is a pain logging in.. set it to save the login details
Easiest thing to do would be to add a root user
THIS IS WRONG… SEE BELOW … THANKS DANIEL
What? There is only ever ONE ROOT USER!
That’s not easy… that’s just wrong - sorry Nev… But on each UNIX or GNU/Linux system - there’s only one root… I don’t know what you’re trying to say here…
I think the OP @theking2 - should perhaps - NOT use root to do anything…
Because I don’t care enough - I don’t know the answer to “install a printer in the CUPS WEB UI” without using “root” and the password for root…
I still don’t understand why the OP is using Fedora… Why?
I’d suggest something thats way more Plug and Play like Linux Mint, or Ubuntu, or Zorin…