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I have just finished installing a Brother MFC-885CW multifunction printer, after I printed a test page my external and one internal drive became unavailable in 'Places'. I tried rebooting but it did not help. I still have access to file system, floppy drive and CD drive.

Any ideas?

Thanks

I use the MFC j615w. Also via wifi, how did ya go about installing it ?

In detail please, there is a process in doing so or it goes VERY bad fast.

Processes is posted on there site.

processes

Install sane-utils

Install psutils

"sudo aa-complain cupsd" command is required before the installation.
2. "sudo mkdir /usr/share/cups/model" command (as it is) is required before the installation.

For Debian based distributions earlier than Ubuntu8.10, Debian5:
"sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/cupsys /etc/init.d/lpd"

"sudo mkdir /var/spool/lpd" command is required if the folder does not exist.

1. Open "sudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules" file.
2.Add the following two lines to the end of the device list. (Before the line "# The following rule will disable ..."):


The lines to be added---------------------------


# Brother scanners
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"


3. Restart the OS.

Files MUST be installed in this order, Just the names of the files would be matching your modle but the command remands the same.

FYI I have sold and installed about 20 + brother printers for linux.

Use these commands for x64 or just install via gdeb package installer for x32.

The order MUST be done just like this.

sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i mfcj615wlpr-1.1.1-1.i386.deb

sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i mfcj615wcupswrapper-1.1.1-1.i386.deb

sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i brscan-skey-0.2.1-3.i386.deb

sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i brscan3-0.2.11-3.i386.deb

Although the printer is wireless it will run on a wired network, so I set the printer to run on ethernet.

Downloaded Drivers from Brother website:

brmfcfaxlpd-1.0.0-1.i386.deb
brscan2-0.2.5-1.i386.deb
mfc885cwlpr-1.0.1-1.i386.deb

opened with Ubuntu software installer
Checked with $ dpkg -l | grep Brother
all drivers were installed.

Now when I try to connect it finds the printer but not the installed drivers.

When I had UE2.9 installed as a dual boot on a separate HD, it was then that I lost access to my drives.
Tried installing Ubuntu 10.10 inside windows 7, got my drives back but still can't access printer.

YOU MUST follow the install instructions as I stated.

YOU can not under any condition just install drivers. It goes bad fast.

to many dependency problems and missing directories.

Followed your instructions (used gdeb), Drivers were installed, have wireless access to network,and Printer now shows up under system-admin-printing.

MFC-885CW set up for ethernet and wireless and has a connection to network.

Problem! when I try to print am told 'no connection to printer'

when you search for the printer.

Like this





Use the jetdirect option, only one that works.

Note : Clearly your IP the printer pulls will be different.

I'm really starting to feel like a pain in the you know what, but I do not find the Jetdirect, I only get my printer and 'Brother HP Laserjet 4050

Your drivers were installed WORNG from the start. As I remember this ended badly for me the first time. I had to remove all traces via synaptic then reinstall fresh once all directories and dependences where met.

force-all command was needed on a x64 system.