Just starting out and have a question? You wanna supply a link to the drivers page.. As far as I can see it will do no harm if I install all of the three scannerdriver files, but still I’ll do the same thing here. Great news because I couldn’t see anything wrong and was just assuming the drivers no longer worked with recent distros. Shortened driver-name means the driver’s name without the.
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Hi, Thanks for yout swift reaction.
Had a quick try at using this printer but I can’t get a response from it. Originally Posted by Joep72 First of all I am trying to find out what the cause is that the link you gave me, shows different instruction.
Be also sure that sane-backends package is already installed. I had to try a dozen times before it succeeded. What’s the output from: August 21, The driver installation will start.
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September 01, The Number Of The Beast. Both printer and scanner work now. SeZo Hero Member Posts: The installation of hrother drivers is all done by the installer tool.
In doing so a popup showed up advising me not to close because there is still an active proces running. Debian Testing Amd64 Posts: Lijux 27, August 28, You are logged into reality as ‘root’ logging in as ‘insane’ is the only safe option. I’ll let you know the result as soon as I have done that.
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As far as I can see it will do no harm if I install all of the three scannerdriver files, but still I’ll do the same thing here. Shortened driver-name means the driver’s name without linix. This page explains how to set an all in one Brother printer up with a network connection.
If you’d like to contribute content, linhx us know. Eight hours later the situation is still the same. No scanners found; so does the Xsaneprogram. I am using Linux Mint 16 Petra ;debian.
Having a problem logging in? Hi Mark, I can’t scan from the printer and send it to the computer. Are you new to LinuxQuestions.
Brother scanner mfc jw installation. What OS are you using, is it debian based?
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linjx Still I have one problem. The drivername can be obtained with a root ls -a. August 31, I won’t be able to try it out until Monday as my Grandson is here till then, but thanks for your help. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.
