On Thu, 03 May 2012 02:20:39 -0400
Dirk Gently
upscope wrote:
Tom I've been looking for new printer and since both the brother's printers my wife had I'd consider Brother for my Linux systems. Did you resolve the problem of the busy signal? Also when you downloaded the Brother software did it include Scanner software? Sane does not appear to have a scanner driver for this printer and I need to be able to scan.
Brother's scanner software works with sane. Follow the destructions, and everything will work. I save the downloads in /local, a filesystem which I preserve during upgrade installations.
For my own peace of mind, when doing the first installation of a Brother product, I make shell scripts in case I have to reinstall the drivers later.
For example for the MFC-5440 CN:
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For the Scanner:
#!/bin/bash # Install printer driver for MFC-5440CN rpm -ihv --nodeps brscan2*.i386.rpm rpm -qa | grep brscan2 brsaneconfig2 -a name=SCANLETTER model=MFC-5440CN ip=192.168.1.253 brsaneconfig2 -q | grep SCANLETTE
Hi Dirk: Thanks for the scripts. I'm modifying them for my model. For the scanner, where did you obtail the brsaneconfig file? I searched the Brother site but couldn't find it there. <<<<< snip >>>>> Thanks, Tom -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin AMD Phenom II x4 955 -- 4GB RAM -- 2x1.5TB sata3 openSUSE 12.1x86_64 openSUSE 12.2x86_64 KDE 4.6.00, FF 7.0 KDE 4.7.2, FF 10.0 claws-mail 3.8.0 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org