Building Raspberry Pi Alpine Linux drivers (splix) for Samsung SCX-3205

(Executive summary: Some prebuilt packages also available at my site http://alpine.asuka.fi/v3.12/community/ )

Remember my old war horse, the Samsung SCX-3205 black & white printer/scanner? I recently moved in to a house. My girlfriend did not want printer near TV (with my ESXi shoebox) anymore, so I had to invent something else.

I had old Raspberry Pi 2 Model B v. 1.1 around, so I thought I should hook it up with the printer. Unfortunately I ended up compiling the necessary drivers myself because Alpine Linux did not have anything relevant. (I don’t blame them, this is quite outdated and rare.)

BTW Some Prebuilt packages are available at

http://alpine.asuka.fi/

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