Printer - Lexmark E321 Laser

[ImBatman]

Hi

I am a very new user of Linux (Mandrake 10 - upgraded to Official) and bought the printer mentioned above on the weekend. One of the reasons I bought it was it had the Penguin on the outside, so was supposedly Linux compatible. It turns out that they only have drivers for RedHat and Suse.

Have I wasted my cash or is there a way I can get one of the other drivers set up under Mandrake? By the way, I´ve tried the Lexmark website and there doesn appear to be any Mandrake driver there either.

Also, I´ve had a bit of a look through the Printer HOWTO and the best advice I could find there (I´m new to this remember, so I don´t really know what I´m looking for) was to try using a compatible driver, so I tried CUPS with other Lexmark drivers but all that prints is heiroglyphics.

It´s funny - I swapped to Linux for the more generic support, and the first perirpheral I buy slams into the same OS-specific compatibility wall. If you can believe it, the Lexmark Linux doco (which they stick only on the CD, while giving full Windows instructions in the printed material I might add) actually says you will have to have one of those Linux distros to install.

[jeremy1701]

You should be able to install the driver onto any distro, it's just that they only offer support for redhat and suse. If it's an rpm, you can simple install it. If it's a .tar.gz, then you can make it.

Good Luck!
Jeremy

[ImBatman]

Thanks

I try to install the driver using RPM: rpm -U drivers-linux-MVprint.rpm
but it fails:

error: Failed dependencies: libncurses.so.4 is needed by drivers-MVprint-4.7.1-1

When I download a package and try to install it:
# rpm -U ncurses-4.2-25.LS1.i386.rpm

it returns:

package ncurses-5.3-1.20040125.4mdk (which is newer than ncurses-4.2-25.LS1) is already installed

Does anyone know how I proceed from here? Please remember, this is actually my first week of operation with Linux.