Edgy Howto: Brother Printer MFC-215c complete

[ee2592]

[QUOTE=Jose Catre-Vandis;2275292]
Download all the necessary drivers from the Brother site

http://solutions.brother.com/Library/sol/printer/linux/rpmfiles/lpr_others/dcp540cnlpr-1.0.0-9.i386.rpm

Hi, thanks for this great help for installing my new dcp-540cn - with only some little problems described now:
1. I think, you didn't mean dcp540cnlpr-1.0.0-9.i386.rpm but dcp540cnlpr-1.0.0-9.i386.deb - file, downloadable here:
http://www.brother.com/cgi-bin/agree...ng=English_lpr

2. Another little problem, I had: My printer show me his ip in his display in this form: 192.168.178.023 , but for the installation I must take 192.168.178.23 (without zero!)

3. Your downloadadress for brscan2-0.2.1-1.i386.deb failed, successful download here:
wget http://solutions.brother.com/Library...2.1-1.i386.deb

Greetz,
ee

[_zeppelin_]

For those people that are getting this error:

AS user
BUT can use the scanner as root.

You can resolve this problem adding 'OPTIONS+="last_rule"' to your udev rules. Edit /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rules . Your lines should be:

# Brother MFC 9600
SYSFS{idVendor}=="04f9", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0101", MODE="664", GROUP="scanner", OPTIONS+="last_rule"
# Brother MFC 7300c
SYSFS{idVendor}=="04f9", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0106", MODE="664", GROUP="scanner", OPTIONS+="last_rule"
# Brother DCP 115C
SYSFS{idVendor}=="04f9", SYSFS{idProduct}=="018c", MODE="664", GROUP="scanner", OPTIONS+="last_rule"

[steven zeferelli]

many thanks for useful post.
Finally got my acer t180 working completely without Hasta la Vista baby.

[bsmonks]

Thanks, matchless! Installed my MFC-420cn on the first try. It's connected straight into my network and I can now print and scan from it. Yay!

I would, however, request that you make your instructions a little more n00b friendly. I was trying to figure out how to

Create a new directory in /var/spool/lpd

for several minutes. I tried from Konqueror (several times, because the the first couple times I might not have held my tongue just the right way when I clicked the mouse.) and I even tried "md" (from my MSDOS days years ago) in the Konsole. And nothing worked. I finally started reading through the thread to see if any other newbies had the same problem. I got to page 4 and saw Jose Catre-Vandis's post. He included the "mkdir" command in his set of instructions. After that, everything in your instruction set worked to perfection!

Thanks again!

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

Brother DCP-540CN howto updated and working in clean install of Gutsy 7.10

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...2&postcount=31

[frank-hoeg]

Used this guide to install a networked Brother DCP-315cn on gutsy gibon, it worked first time.
Haven`t checked the fax, but print/scan works just fine.
Thanks for making this howto.
Frank

[buntgrau]

Now, after two days and one night without sleeping, my system is running nearly completly - just one thing is not working and it seemed to be that i need to install windows again, because it is impossible for me to print.

here you all explain very good how to do - but in fact, even i try to follow these steps, i only get erroe messages because for example dcp540cncupswrapper-1.0.0-10.i386.deb is not working even i download exacly like you all wrote.

i do not know what else i can do - i have the Brother CVP-540CN and i need to print out a lot of things - i am new with UBUNTU, but anything else was nearly no problem. Would be nice if it would be possible for someone to make a package or so i can run completly ...

[GothicX]

I've added the Brother DCP-115C to OpenPrinting website, so if someone has something to add or change.

http://www.openprinting.org/show_pri...other-DCP-115C

Thanks

[fernandesfer]

Great! This solved the problem of scanning! Just had to make some arrangements to modify this file, as permissions there are only for superusers!

HAVE YOU A SOLUTION SIMILAR TO PUT IT WORKING AS PRINTER?

Thanks in ADVANCE!
FF

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

Now, after two days and one night without sleeping, my system is running nearly completly - just one thing is not working and it seemed to be that i need to install windows again, because it is impossible for me to print.

here you all explain very good how to do - but in fact, even i try to follow these steps, i only get erroe messages because for example dcp540cncupswrapper-1.0.0-10.i386.deb is not working even i download exacly like you all wrote.

i do not know what else i can do - i have the Brother CVP-540CN and i need to print out a lot of things - i am new with UBUNTU, but anything else was nearly no problem. Would be nice if it would be possible for someone to make a package or so i can run completly ...

Is the CVP-540cn an alternate name to DCP-540cn? (seems logical!)

Which part of the world are you in and which version of Ubuntu are you running? Gutsy implements things slightly differently than Feisty and before.