Install

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echo 'net-print/cups usb -X zeroconf' >> /etc/portage/package.use/net-print
echo 'net-print/cups-filters ldap zeroconf' >> /etc/portage/package.use/net-print
emerge brlaser cups cups-filters ghostscript-gpl gutenprint

I also downloaded the RPM from the official page and used rpm2targz to convert the RPM and extract all the files and then copied the ppd to the

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cp /home/user/backup/backup/hardware/brother/./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/cupswrapper/brother-HLL2310D-cups-en.ppd /usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/

Detecting

This is a USB device, plug it in and its detected by the kernel automatically and visible via lsusb

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dmesg | grep -i brother -B4 -A1
[15782.837194] usb 1-9: new high-speed USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd
[15782.850042] usb 1-9: New USB device found, idVendor=04f9, idProduct=009a, bcdDevice= 1.00
[15782.850043] usb 1-9: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[15782.850044] usb 1-9: Product: HL-L2310D series
[15782.850044] usb 1-9: Manufacturer: Brother
[15782.850045] usb 1-9: SerialNumber: E78096L9N400161
 
lsusb -s 001:013 -v
Bus 001 Device 013: ID 04f9:009a Brother Industries, Ltd HL-L2310D series
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            0 
  bDeviceSubClass         0 
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x04f9 Brother Industries, Ltd
  idProduct          0x009a 
  bcdDevice            1.00
  iManufacturer           1 Brother
  iProduct                2 HL-L2310D series
  iSerial                 3 E78096L9N400161
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength       0x0020
    bNumInterfaces          1
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0 
    bmAttributes         0xc0
      Self Powered
    MaxPower                2mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           2
      bInterfaceClass         7 Printer
      bInterfaceSubClass      1 Printer
      bInterfaceProtocol      2 Bidirectional
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x01  EP 1 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x82  EP 2 IN
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               1
Device Qualifier (for other device speed):
  bLength                10
  bDescriptorType         6
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            0 
  bDeviceSubClass         0 
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  bNumConfigurations      1
can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
Device Status:     0x0001
  Self Powered

However, lpinfo doesn't find the device…

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But there is a usb backend that ships with Cups (found via `equery f cups | grep usb`) and it does find the device...
 
/usr/libexec/cups/backend/usb 
DEBUG: Loading USB quirks from "/usr/share/cups/usb".
DEBUG: Loaded 181 quirks.
DEBUG: list_devices
DEBUG: libusb_get_device_list=12
DEBUG2: Printer found with device ID: MFG:Brother;CMD:PJL,HBP;MDL:HL-L2310D series;CLS:PRINTER;CID:Brother Laser Type1; Device URI: usb://Brother/HL-L2310D%20series?serial=E78096L9N400161
direct usb://Brother/HL-L2310D%20series?serial=E78096L9N400161 "Brother HL-L2310D series" "Brother HL-L2310D series" "MFG:Brother;CMD:PJL,HBP;MDL:HL-L2310D series;CLS:PRINTER;CID:Brother Laser Type1;" ""

This means we can add a new queue…

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lpadmin -p Chompy -E -D "Eats up your yummy printing!" -v usb://Brother/HL-L2310D%20series?serial=E78096L9N400161 -i /usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/brother-HLL2310D-cups-en.ppd -L "Study" -o printer-is-shared=true
lpadmin: Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS.

At this point the printer is now listed in the CUPS WebUI (http://localhost:631/) but not quite working, it lists it as being Idle - "File "/usr/libexec/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_HLL2310D" not available: No such file or directory".

Reading the section Downloading Driver from Brother on the Brother networked printer - Gentoo Wiki page again led to insights, you need to download both the files from the Official Brother product support page.

Having extracted the RPM I had a look around and in there are the following files in there…

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├── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./etc
│   └── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./etc/opt
│       └── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./etc/opt/brother
│           └── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./etc/opt/brother/Printers
│               └── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./etc/opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D
│                   └── [4.0K Jul 18  2017]  ./etc/opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/inf
├── [130K Apr 18 17:36]  ./hll2310dpdrv-4.0.0-1.i386.rpm
├── [124K Apr 17 21:25]  ./hll2310dpdrv-4.0.0-1.i386.tar.gz
├── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./opt
│   └── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./opt/brother
│       └── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./opt/brother/Printers
│           └── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D
│               ├── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/cupswrapper
│               │   ├── [ 17K Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/cupswrapper/brother-HLL2310D-cups-en.ppd
│               │   ├── [ 18K Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/cupswrapper/Copying
│               │   ├── [ 26K Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/cupswrapper/lpdwrapper
│               │   └── [7.4K Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/cupswrapper/paperconfigml2
│               ├── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/inf
│               │   ├── [ 890 Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/inf/brHLL2310Dfunc
│               │   ├── [ 167 Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/inf/brHLL2310Drc
│               │   └── [ 863 Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/inf/setupPrintcap
│               ├── [ 20K Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/LICENSE_ENG.txt
│               ├── [ 20K Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/LICENSE_JPN.txt
│               └── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/lpd
│                   ├── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/lpd/armv7l
│                   │   ├── [ 31K Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/lpd/armv7l/brprintconflsr3
│                   │   └── [ 64K Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/lpd/armv7l/rawtobr3
│                   ├── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/lpd/i686
│                   │   ├── [ 28K Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/lpd/i686/brprintconflsr3
│                   │   └── [ 58K Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/lpd/i686/rawtobr3
│                   ├── [6.5K Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/lpd/lpdfilter
│                   └── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/lpd/x86_64
│                       ├── [ 35K Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/lpd/x86_64/brprintconflsr3
│                       └── [ 66K Jul 18  2017]  ./opt/brother/Printers/HLL2310D/lpd/x86_64/rawtobr3
└── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./var
    └── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./var/spool
        └── [4.0K Apr 17 21:25]  ./var/spool/lpd
            └── [4.0K Jul 18  2017]  ./var/spool/lpd/HLL2310D

Ahha! This is looking promising, but careful reading of Downloading the Driver from Brother resulted in me installing the rpm directly using rpm (which I had to install first with emerge rpm).

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emerge -av rpm
rpm -i --nodeps hll2310dpdrv-4.0.0-1.i386.rpm
...
lpadmin -p HLL2310D -E -v usb://dev/usb/lp0 -P /usr/share/ppd/brother/brother-HLL2310D-cups-en.ppd
lpadmin: Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS.

I had a play around based on this thread and added printers manually as…

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lpadmin -p Chompy -E -v usb://Brother/HL-L2310D%20series?serial=E78096L9N400161 -i /usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/brother-HLL2310D-cups-en.ppd -L "Study"
lpadmin -p Chompy2 -E -v usb://dev/usb/lp0 -P /usr/share/ppd/brother/brother-HLL2310D-cups-en.ppd -L "Study"

I added udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/97-printer.rules and one key factor was to set the GROUP:= and MODE:= fields (described in this thread.

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KERNEL=="1-9", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{product}=="HL-L2310D series", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1d6b", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0002", SYMLINK+="usb/lp0", MODE:="0664", GROUP:="lp"

Networking

The next step was to make the printer available to other computers on the home network. This can be done through the WebUI by setting the printer as default and then under Administration > Server checking the tick box next to Share printers connected to this system.

Arch Linux

This required installation of CUPS package from AUR.

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pacman -Syu cups
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/brother-hll2310d.git
makepkg -sri

Windows

Printer > Add Printer > Add by TCP/IP Address.
Enter IP address and port (631)

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Install

Detecting

Networking

Arch Linux

Windows

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