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Thread: HOWTO: Ubuntu All Brother Printer & Scanner Driver Installation for Newbies!

  1. #41
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    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!

  2. #42
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    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...

    Now I can use your guide to install my new MFC-465CN. Thank you!

  3. #43
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    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?

  4. #44
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    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!

  5. #45
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    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

  6. #46
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    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
    ~
    Desktop:ASRock P4i65GV/P4 2.8ghz 2gbram
    Laptop:Toshiba L350-PSLD8C Centrino64 dualcore 2ghz 4gbram

  7. #47
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    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
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    Laptop:Toshiba L350-PSLD8C Centrino64 dualcore 2ghz 4gbram

  8. #48
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    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.

  9. #49
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    Re: HOWTO: Gutsy 7.10 All Brother Printer Scanner Driver Installation for Newbies!

    Quote Originally Posted by trash View Post
    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!
    OS: All Hardy!
    System: HP DV9224TX Laptop
    CPU: Core2Duo T5600 1.82GHz / RAM: 2048MB DDR2 667MHz
    HD: 240GB SATA (2x 120GB) / VGA: nVidia Gforce 7600 1024MB (512 Dedicated/512 Shared)

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    Re: HOWTO: Gutsy 7.10 All Brother Printer Scanner Driver Installation for Newbies!

    Quote Originally Posted by BoardDWorld View Post
    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!
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    Desktop:ASRock P4i65GV/P4 2.8ghz 2gbram
    Laptop:Toshiba L350-PSLD8C Centrino64 dualcore 2ghz 4gbram

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