I gave up on Brother after having to fiddle with the config on every OS upgrade, and I recommend that everyone else do the same. I tried opening a support ticket the last time, and they said Linux support is only available in the forums, which tells me they don't actively support it any more (if they ever did).
So as suggested in comment #26, I ran out and bought an HP, and never looked back. I got everything working fairly quickly, and it hasn't broken since. They actually work with the open-source community so I'll keep supporting them. I'm never buying a Brother again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/701856 Title: Brother's printer/scanner drivers awkward to find and install Status in cups package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: Binary package hint: cupsys Hello, I have the multifonction laser printer and scan Brother DCP-7030. It works very well in Ubuntu, but with some hard configuration. Printer is automatically detected when connected in USB, but Ubuntu does not propose DCP-7030 drivers, only DCP-7025, and it doesn't work well. To get DCP-7030 fully recognized and well printing / scanning, I have to do this (it's a short summary) : http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/before.html - Printer BROTHER DCP-7030 : cd ~/desktop sudo aa-complain cupsd sudo mkdir /usr/share/cups/model http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/download_prn.html#DCP-7030 sudo dpkg -i --force-all --force-architecture brdcp7030lpr-2.0.2-1.i386.deb sudo dpkg -i --force-all --force-architecture cupswrapperDCP7030-2.0.2-1.i386.deb http://127.0.0.1:631/printers/DCP7030 : OK After that printer works - SCANNING : Install scan-key-tools / Brscan3 http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/download_scn.html#brscan3 http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/instruction_scn1a.html sudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules : in section "libusb device nodes", replacer 0664 by 0666 sudo lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f9:01a Brother Industries, Ltd Go to dev/bus/usb : bus 1 and device 4 is root owned Open it in Nautilus as root, change it to my user name and take ownership Now Simple Scan works, Brother-DCP is seen. But... big problem ! At each restart of Ubuntu or DCP Brother, permission resets and comes back to root, I have to change ownership and re-log each time, this is not nice... Is it a way to "protect" the file against erasing or permission change ? It's also true for other models than DCP-7030 (like DCP-7040...). I do not know if it is a Cups / Ubuntu "bug" or Openprinting missing for new drivers, but as Brother gives functional drivers for Linux, this should be easily implemented I hope, as more and more materials are natively identified in Ubuntu. Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards, Xavier To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/701856/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
