Re: HOWTO: Gutsy 7.10 All Brother Printer Scanner Driver Installation for Newbies!
In attempt after attempt my Ubuntu experience has been better than my Fedora experience. I am running Fedora on my desktop and Ubuntu on my laptop. I have been able to get wireless and mp3 playback operational in half the time it has taken me on my desktop and now, after a week of effort on Fedora, I still cant print. In my first attempt on Ubuntu I was able to get the spiffy CUPS test page to print. I am about to attempt the scanner driver install, but my confidence is high that this to will be a straight forward install.
I am very impressed with everything Ubuntu so far - keep up the outstanding work!
Re: HOWTO: Gutsy 7.10 All Brother Printer Scanner Driver Installation for Newbies!
Thank you for the reply. The error I kept getting was a result of a botched install a few weeks ago. It kept preventing me from installing ANYTHING new. I think I fixed my problem. I kept getting this:
stephanie@boxofmallards:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
hl5140lpr
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 132943 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing hl5140lpr ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/hl5140lpr.postrm: 3: /etc/init.d/lpd: not found
dpkg: error processing hl5140lpr (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
hl5140lpr
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
stephanie@boxofmallards:~$
I removed the hl5140lpr.postrm file manually, ran sudo apt-get install -f again and all seems well. Sorry, this is monumental for me as I am just getting the hang of this! I finally solved my own problem... :D
Now I can use your guide to install my new MFC-465CN. Thank you!
Re: HOWTO: Gutsy 7.10 All Brother Printer Scanner Driver Installation for Newbies!
Seems I spoke a touch too soon... After modifying the 45-libsane.rules I rebooted. Everything is going just great, but can't get the scanner to work. When I run xsane is gives me an error stating:
Failed to open device 'brother2:net1;dev0': Invalid argument
um.. yeah... Help?
Re: HOWTO: Gutsy 7.10 All Brother Printer Scanner Driver Installation for Newbies!
Back again...
I finally installed the drivers without a problem. I was able to print a test page once. Somehow I manged to screw something up and now nothing prints.
This is what I have in CUPS:
Description: MFC440CN
Location: Office
Printer Driver: Brother MFC-440CN CUPS v1.1
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
Device URI: ipp://192.168.0.3:9100
When I click to print a test page it appears like it is going to work (LCD lights up on the printer) but nothing happens. Cups displays "Connected to 192.168.0.3:9100."
What am I doing wrong? I have no idea if that URI is correct- I was guessing.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Re: HOWTO: Gutsy 7.10 All Brother Printer Scanner Driver Installation for Newbies!
Thank You,
This is the most complete instructions for Ubuntu printing I have found. I follow you instruction step by step and it work the first time.:)
UBUNTU 7.10
Dell Dimension 8250
Brother HL-2070N
Re: HOWTO: Gutsy 7.10 All Brother Printer Scanner Driver Installation for Newbies!
grrrrr, I hate printers lol.
can anybody help me out here, I had errors on step 5 or 6 so I had to install lpr but now i am still getting errors...
Preparing to replace mfc240ccupswrapper 1.0.0-10 (using mfc240ccupswrapper-1.0.0-10.i386.deb) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mfc240ccupswrapper.prerm: 3: /usr/local/Brother/Printer/mfc240c/cupswrapper/cupswrappermfc240c: not found
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: 3: /usr/local/Brother/Printer/mfc240c/cupswrapper/cupswrappermfc240c: not found
dpkg: error processing mfc240ccupswrapper-1.0.0-10.i386.deb (--install):
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mfc240ccupswrapper.postinst: 3: /usr/local/Brother/Printer/mfc240c/cupswrapper/cupswrappermfc240c: not found
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/cups/model/brmfc240c.ppd': No such file or directory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
mfc240ccupswrapper-1.0.0-10.i386.deb
Re: HOWTO: Gutsy 7.10 All Brother Printer Scanner Driver Installation for Newbies!
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/mfc240ccupswrapper*
seems to have got me past the install error:)
Re: HOWTO: Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 All Brother Printer Scanner Driver Installation for Newb
Thanks! Worked a treat with my MFC-640CW.
One minor comment. In step 7, it did complain that it couldn't create some directories. Doesn't seem to stop it from working fine though.
Re: HOWTO: Gutsy 7.10 All Brother Printer Scanner Driver Installation for Newbies!
Quote:
Originally Posted by
trash
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/mfc240ccupswrapper*
seems to have got me past the install error:)
Interesting you had to remove the cups seeing the LPR is being forced? I will add it to my How-To if it's mentioned again. Thanks!
Re: HOWTO: Gutsy 7.10 All Brother Printer Scanner Driver Installation for Newbies!
Quote:
Originally Posted by
BoardDWorld
Interesting you had to remove the cups seeing the LPR is being forced? I will add it to my How-To if it's mentioned again. Thanks!
I actually thought it was cause by previous failed attempts installing... still might come in handy for othes though.
Thanks for the howto!