Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1)

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From	John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com>
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Subject	Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1)
Date	Sat, 4 Oct 2014 04:06:21 +0000 (UTC)
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notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:
> On 2014-10-03, JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> wrote:
>> Having a bit of trouble correctly configuring scanning for
>> Brother MFC-J6920DW connected wirelessly to a slackware 14.1 box.
> 
> Here are all the Brother drivers for both printer and scanner:
>   http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?
>   c=us&lang=en&prod=mfcj6920dw_us_eu_as&os=127
> I run Slackware 14.1 and have a new Brother laser printer/copy/fax
> machine.  I downloaded the .rpm drivers, then changed them to Slack
> pkgs with:
>   rpm2txz -c -S -n -d  
> ....then installed them as root using pkgtool. Install the LPR pkg
> first. I can't say about the scanner drivers, as my scanner is a
> separate Epson. Good luck. nb

Thanks, nb. Already did all that (except I used rpm2tgz),
as per snipped part of original post. And printer functionality
already works fine. But not scanner. Similar kind of brother
scan problem described at
   http://askubuntu.com/questions/486699/brother-dcp-7065dn-ubuntu-14-04-64bit-can-print-to-network-printer-but-cannot
   That's ubuntu, but I don't think it's a distribution-specific
problem, except maybe for slackware's rpm difficulties (which I
think I already know how to deal with). But the solution discussed
there ("restart the computer") didn't work for me.
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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(In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-03 00:46 +0000
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-10-02 22:17 -0400
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-03 11:41 +0100
    Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-03 11:41 +0000
      Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-04 06:28 +0000
        Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-04 09:39 +0100
          Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-04 12:46 +0000
            Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-10-05 03:08 +0000
              Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-05 03:36 +0000
                Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-10-05 03:43 +0000
                Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-05 08:48 +0000
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2014-10-03 16:26 +0000
    Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2014-10-04 04:06 +0000

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