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Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

From Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW
Date 2017-08-05 18:50 +0200
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On 2017-08-05, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 20:19:33 -0400, Jape Person wrote:
>
>> On 08/04/2017 06:39 PM, Brian wrote:
>> 
>> It's sad, isn't it? There must be enough Linux / Unix folks using brother
>> printers to make it worth Brother's trouble to provide a utility for this. I
>> guess most environments have either Windows or Mac available, but mine
>> didn't until I got the little NUC. $300 so I can do firmware upgrades.
>> 
>> Making lemonade, I'll probably try to play some old games on the little box.
>> There's always a silver lining.
>
> I wonder whether wine would help (with installing the firmware, I mean).
>  

I was wondering whether a native utility like flashrom could be used for
this. However when I looked at the Brother firmware executable to see
whether the firmware part could be extracted, I found that in fact the
exe file doesn't contain the firmware at all, but rather downloads the
latter from a Brother internet server somewhere in the cloud and then
installs into the printer. 

Frankly I would be leery of going through the procedure without a lot of
wine for fear of bricking my device.

-- 
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pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-04 04:00 +0200
  Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-04 12:40 +0200
    Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-04 20:20 +0200
      Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-05 00:50 +0200
        Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-05 02:30 +0200
          Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-05 15:00 +0200
            Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-05 17:50 +0200
            Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-08-05 18:50 +0200
              Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-05 19:20 +0200
                Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-05 20:30 +0200
                Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-05 20:50 +0200
                Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-05 21:20 +0200
                Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-06 00:50 +0200
  Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-08-04 14:30 +0200
    Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-04 15:00 +0200
      Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-04 20:30 +0200
      Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-04 22:20 +0200
        Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-05 01:10 +0200
          Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-05 02:40 +0200
    Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-04 20:20 +0200
      Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-05 01:10 +0200
        Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-05 02:50 +0200
    Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-04 22:10 +0200
      Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2017-08-06 01:40 +0200
        Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-06 02:10 +0200

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