Good Morning,
I installed the rpm file downloaded from brother driver directory.
When I add a printer in the printer menu, the usb printer is seen but doesn’t find any correct driver.
Can anybody advice some tip ?
Many thanks in advance
I can see that brother is not really welcome on this forum:)
I finally could install the printer.
perhaps you could tell us what you did that worked: always useful to record for posterity;
and tell us if you are running 32bit or 64bit OpenSuse
I can see that brother is not really welcome on this forum
pray, tell us what you meant by that
Hello,
I don’t know exctly what I did to let it work.:sarcastic:
There are 2 files/ways in the brother website, lpr and cups. I don’t know the difference, I found nothing indicating these differences.
I installed the first, unsuccessully, then the second, unsuncessfully either.Bored and switched all off.
The next day, I ran the installation again an it worked (?!?).
I have a 32 bit machine.
I red on this forum that brother offers a poor service for linux applications, that’s all.Perhaps just a personal feeling.
By the way, my printer is a scanner as well. Installation of it is still not ok. I sent a request to the local brother service and got no efficient answer so far. If you are familiar with these topics, I can discribe the probem.Just tell me.
Many thanks in advance
>new user x
On Sat July 18 2009 12:26 pm, New User X wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I don’t know exctly what I did to let it work.:sarcastic:
> There are 2 files/ways in the brother website, lpr and cups. I don’t
> know the difference, I found nothing indicating these differences.
> I installed the first, unsuccessully, then the second, unsuncessfully
> either.Bored and switched all off.
> The next day, I ran the installation again an it worked (?!?).
> I have a 32 bit machine.
> I red on this forum that brother offers a poor service for linux
> applications, that’s all.Perhaps just a personal feeling.
> By the way, my printer is a scanner as well. Installation of it is
> still not ok. I sent a request to the local brother service and got no
> efficient answer so far. If you are familiar with these topics, I can
> discribe the probem.Just tell me.
> Many thanks in advance
>>new user x
>
>
New User X;
You can get the scanner drivers as well as printer drivers here:
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/
Be sure you download and read the instructions and get the correct driver for
your model.
PS: The CUPS driver is your best bet for printing.
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
Hello,
Yes, that’s the pace I downloaded the driver from.
But look, they write:
Add the 2 following lines in the file 55-libsane.rules
#Brother
ATTR{idVendor}==“04f9”, MODE=“0666”, GROUP=“scanner”, ENV{libsane_matched}=“yes”
but every other line reletive to other scanners look so:
"#Brother (scanner type)
ATTR{idVendor}==“04f9”, ATTR {idProduct}==“xxxx”, MODE=“0664”, GROUP=“lp”, ENV{libsane_matched}=“yes”
wich is quite different.
Anyway, with the proposed version, it doesn’t work. I suppose, add these lines make the modell appear in the list of devices and then installing the drivers, I can can make match device and driver ?
I asked by brother service the product id of my machine (MFC-260C) but as I wrote, without success so far.
If You have another good idea ?
Many thanks in advance.
new user x
Hmmm… I have configured a couple of Brother multi-function printers (at work), and they did not require udev rules to be added in order to scan. (They were both network printers). Just add the required sane drivers. I assume your printer is directly connected via usb interface?
A good way to check if detected correctly is to issue this command:
sacanimage -L
Do you see your scanner device present?
Hello Deano,
I suppose You meant “scanimage -L” ?
I did this and the device is correctly know as brother scanner MFC-260C.
But if I use the “scanner” menu of Yast to configure it, the test doesn’t work.
If I use gimp to scan a document, doesn’t work either.
It must be anyway something wrong somewhere ?
In addition, I cant run the test in yast at the moment because I have another problem with my graphic card (see my other thread also in “hardware” menu.
Many thanks in advance
Sorry about typo. I never use YaST to configure scanners or printers. Instead, try scanning via the ‘scanimage’ command first:
scanimage >test.pnm
‘man scanimage’ or ‘scanimage -h’ will give you the options.
I generally use kooka (graphical app) for scanning, and iscan if using my Epson scanner.
I’ve nerver used the gimp to scan with, and I don’t appear to be able to aquire an scanned image with it, so I can’t help with this.
Hello,
The result of command lines is :
tringaf@linux-jei6:~> scanimage >test.pnm
scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.88
scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 355.6 to 355.567
tringaf@linux-jei6:~> scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.88
bash: scanimage:: command not found
tringaf@linux-jei6:~> scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 355.6 to 355.567
bash: scanimage:: command not found
tringaf@linux-jei6:~> [1]+ Complété glxgears
bash: [1]+: command not found
tringaf@linux-jei6:~> scanimage -L
device `brother2:bus2;dev1’ is a Brother MFC-260C USB scanner
tringaf@linux-jei6:~>
But the use of application XSANE does not work.
The display of the document is ok but as soon as I ask for the scan, an error occurs “error during cms conversion, could not open scanner icm profile”.
Or any operation with device parameters aborts with the same message.
kooka is not available for gnome environnement.
Many thanks for your support
new user x
Can you scan ok via CLI utility scanimage?
Not sure what the error message means, but googling suggests a workaround might be to disable colour management in ‘Preferences’ menu.
Hello,
What is CLI ?
If you mean, run the application threw the call of program by application catalog of gnome (icon), yes, it is what I did.
Effectively, I disabled the parameter and it works fine.
Many thanks for your help.
new user x
CLI = command line interface. I was referring to the ‘scanimage’ utility - wanting to make sure that your scanner was working properly. Anyway, it sounds like xsane works for you with the colour management disabled. Happy scanning. 