On Friday, April 27, 2012 04:31:11 PM Thomas Taylor wrote:

Hi All ;) Have any of you used a Brother MFC-J6710dw with linux? Have there been any problems with recognition/setup?

This is a fairly new printer and I couldn't find it on the HCL so am asking here.

I've always had good luck with Brother printers. Check this page and yours is listed. http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:31:11 -0700 Thomas Taylor wrote:

Hi All ;) Have any of you used a Brother MFC-J6710dw with linux? Have there been any problems with recognition/setup?

This is a fairly new printer and I couldn't find it on the HCL so am asking here.

Thanks, Tom

Thanks to both Mike and Dirk for the responses. Got the printer and installed the drivers per the Brother site. Configured with cups via Yast2. It found the drivers and printed a test page which looks great. That was last night. Today, after working on a network problem my wife was having, I tried to print several pages. Cups is returning a busy signal. Haven't had time to trace that down yet. Fortunately I also have a Brother HL-1440 laser printer (really old but works fine) to print for now. 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

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: #!/bin/bash # Install printer driver for MFC-5440 rpm -ihv --nodeps MFC5440CNlpr-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm rpm -ihv --nodeps cupswrapperMFC5440CN-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm echo "checking software installation...this will take 1-2 minutes" # rpm -qa | grep -e MFC5440CN # echo echo "open http://localhost:631/printers" echo Click "Modify Printer" and set following parameters. echo for Device - "LPD/LPR Host or Printer" or "AppSocket/HP JetDirect" echo for Device URI - - "lpd://(Your printer's IP address)/binary_p1" echo for Make/Manufacturer - Brother echo for Model/Driver Selection - MFC-6490CW echo test print 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 And for the Fax: #!/bin/bash # Install Fax driver for MFC-5440CN rpm -ihv --nodeps brmfcfaxlpd-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm rpm -ihv --nodeps brmfcfaxcups-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm rpm -qa | grep -e brmfcfax echo '"open http://localhost:631/printers"' echo 'Click "Modify Printer" and set following parameters.' echo 'for Device - "LPD/LPR Host or Printer" or "AppSocket/HP JetDirect"' echo "for Device URI - - lpd://(Your printer's IP address)/binary_p1" echo "for Make/Manufacturer - Brother" echo "for Model/Driver Selection - Brother BRMFCFAX for CUPS (en)" echo test print

Thanks

On Monday, April 30, 2012 04:44:43 PM Thomas Taylor wrote:

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:31:11 -0700

Thomas Taylor wrote:

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Hi All ;) Have any of you used a Brother MFC-J6710dw with linux? Have there been any problems with recognition/setup?

This is a fairly new printer and I couldn't find it on the HCL so am asking here.

Thanks, Tom

Thanks to both Mike and Dirk for the responses.

Got the printer and installed the drivers per the Brother site. Configured with cups via Yast2. It found the drivers and printed a test page which looks great. That was last night. Today, after working on a network problem my wife was having, I tried to print several pages. Cups is returning a busy signal. Haven't had time to trace that down yet.

Fortunately I also have a Brother HL-1440 laser printer (really old but works fine) to print for now.

Tom

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On Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:18:08 AM Thomas Taylor wrote:

On Thu, 03 May 2012 02:20:39 -0400

Dirk Gently wrote:

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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

upscope wrote: 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:

#!/bin/bash # Install printer driver for MFC-5440 rpm -ihv --nodeps MFC5440CNlpr-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm rpm -ihv --nodeps cupswrapperMFC5440CN-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm echo "checking software installation...this will take 1-2 minutes" # rpm -qa | grep -e MFC5440CN # echo echo "open http://localhost:631/printers" echo Click "Modify Printer" and set following parameters. echo for Device - "LPD/LPR Host or Printer" or "AppSocket/HP JetDirect" echo for Device URI - - "lpd://(Your printer's IP address)/binary_p1" echo for Make/Manufacturer - Brother echo for Model/Driver Selection - MFC-6490CW echo test print

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

And for the Fax: #!/bin/bash # Install Fax driver for MFC-5440CN rpm -ihv --nodeps brmfcfaxlpd-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm rpm -ihv --nodeps brmfcfaxcups-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm rpm -qa | grep -e brmfcfax echo '"open http://localhost:631/printers"' echo 'Click "Modify Printer" and set following parameters.' echo 'for Device - "LPD/LPR Host or Printer" or "AppSocket/HP JetDirect"' echo "for Device URI - - lpd://(Your printer's IP address)/binary_p1" echo "for Make/Manufacturer - Brother" echo "for Model/Driver Selection - Brother BRMFCFAX for CUPS (en)" echo test print

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Thanks

On Monday, April 30, 2012 04:44:43 PM Thomas Taylor wrote:

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:31:11 -0700

Thomas Taylor wrote:

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Hi All ;) Have any of you used a Brother MFC-J6710dw with linux? Have there been any problems with recognition/setup?

This is a fairly new printer and I couldn't find it on the HCL so am asking here.

Thanks, Tom

Thanks to both Mike and Dirk for the responses.

Got the printer and installed the drivers per the Brother site. Configured with cups via Yast2. It found the drivers and printed a test page which looks great. That was last night. Today, after working on a network problem my wife was having, I tried to print several pages. Cups is returning a busy signal. Haven't had time to trace that down yet.

Fortunately I also have a Brother HL-1440 laser printer (really old but works fine) to print for now.

Tom

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Thanks for this information, Dirk. Actually, I haven't even gotten to the scanner yet. Still figuring out how to get things hooked up with my wifes' Windblows 7 desktop in another room and how to bypass the answering phone machine which is in another part of the house.

Tom

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Have you tried these drivers on an x86_64 system? Russ openSUSE 12.1(3.1.10-1.9-desktop x86_64)|KDE Platform Version 4.8.2 (4.8.2 "release 494"|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce 8400GS(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.40) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Thanks Tom. Hopefully make it to Staples to day, they stock the printer according to there website and they are the only game in town. I downloaded the drivers yesterday so hopefully I can get my old CX6600 replaced soon. On Thursday, May 03, 2012 10:59:17 PM Thomas Taylor wrote:

On Thu, 03 May 2012 16:34 -0700 upscope wrote: <<<<< snip >>>>> getting too long

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Thanks for this information, Dirk. Actually, I haven't even gotten to the scanner yet. Still figuring out how to get things hooked up with my wifes' Windblows 7 desktop in another room and how to bypass the answering phone machine which is in another part of the house.

Tom

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Have you tried these drivers on an x86_64 system?

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Hi Russ; Yes, that is what my system has (64bit-see sig). The printer is working with one problem. All printing is done in portrait mode regardless of what I specify in the print menu. Oh, also they do not show a ledger ("B", 11x17) size paper. I sent a message to Brother tech support to get more information.

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Thomas Taylor wrote:

On Thu, 03 May 2012 02:20:39 -0400 Dirk Gently wrote:

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upscope wrote:

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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.

search on google for your MFC's model number and site:welcome.solutions.brother.com example MFC-5440CN site:welcom.solutions.brother.com Make sure you read the full directions for your model. Sometimes, certain symbolic links or other minor housekeeping tasks need to be executed before doing the actual driver installation.

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Thanks, Tom

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