FOSS devs can collect damages from license violators

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How-To install Brother MFC 7340 Ubuntu 9.10

How to install the Brother MFC – 7340 on Ubuntu 9.10

Ok so I just bought a MFC-7340 and I had some trouble getting it to work on my ubuntu 9.10, but after some elbow grease, I managed to get it working. Here are the simple steps you will need to do, very simplified :)

1. 
   
   Download all these files

http://tinyurl.com/lprmfc734032bit

http://tinyurl.com/cupsmfc734032bit

http://tinyurl.com/brscanmfc734032bit

http://tinyurl.com/scankeymfc734032bit

Place them all in the same folder just to make things easier later.

2. 
   
   Open a terminal window and move to the folder containing the files downloaded.
3. 
   
   Install the drivers.

sudo dpkg -i –force-all (lpr-drivername) NOTE the name of the file might be different

sudo dpkg -i --force-all (cupswrapper-drivername)

4. 
   
   Check if the driver was installed correctly.
   sudo dpkg -l | grep Brother

you should see something about the lpr and cups driver you just installed

5. 
   
   Install scanner drivers
   sudo dpkg -i --force-all (brscanmfc-drivername)
   sudo dpkg -i --force-all (scan-key-toolname)

There you go you have installed the Brother MFC-7340 drivers on your computer now you can go to

system->administration->printing. You can add new printer it should automatically find the MFC then when it asks to choose the driver you should see it on the list as “brother MFC-7340 cups” click on that one and that's it. You can now print a test page.

Note: to test the scanner you have to open xsane as root

sudo xsane

edit: ( I havent tested yet so don't quote me on it )

This is the solution to use the scanner as normal user.

Ubuntu 9.10

1. Open "/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.

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