Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: John Forkosh Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 04:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1412395581 19782 166.84.1.3 (4 Oct 2014 04:06:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 04:06:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.0.0-20110823 ("Ardenistiel") (UNIX) (NetBSD/6.1.4 (i386)) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:12207 notbob wrote: > On 2014-10-03, JohnF 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 )