Brother DCP-7065dn printer with Fedora 19

Fred Smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Thu Aug 1 00:25:31 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 07:43:20PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:40:31AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com>
> > 
> > | | From: Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
> 
> Hugh:
> 
> My DCP-7065DN showed up today and it prints from the wife's Windoze
> box and from my Centos-6 box! Whoohoo!!!!
> 
> So, now I'm wondering if you have tried to get the scanner working, too.
> I've installed the scanner driver and the brscan utility, but they 
> don't seem to be finding the scanner (I've got it on hard-wired network
> with static IP), so I need to do some digging, but thought I should
> ask you first.
> 
> Any clues will be appreciated! :)
> 
> Fred

<later, a little>

Upon some snooping around I found a program, installed with the scanner
driver that needs to be run from the commandline to tell it the address
of the networked scanner:

/usr/bin/brsaneconfig4 -a name="DCP-7065DN" model="DCP-7065DN" ip=192.168.2.97

I didn't FIND any mention of it in the Brother FAQs or Linux instructions,
but maybe I just overlooked it. But having run it, I can now scan!

Fred
> 
> > | 
> > | | Have you actually downloaded and installed (and configured, as needed)
> > | | the drivers Brother provides? you don't actually say...
> > | 
> > | I think so.
> > 
> > I guess not.
> > 
> > I have now performed step 5b from
> >   <http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/instruction_prn1a.html>
> > and it now works!  Thanks for the prompting.
> > 
> > Note: the current web interface to CUPS doesn't exactly conform to 5b, but 
> > with a little bit of guess-work, it worked.
> > 
> > I used HTTPS, not HTTP, to talk to CUPS.  Some things need to be secure.
> > 
> > When prompted for authorization, I used my username and password (hey, I'm 
> > a member of the wheel group).  That didn't work.  I had to actually delete 
> > a browser cookie to be able to try another username.  root was powerful 
> > enough.  There ought to be a log-out button, but I didn't find one.
> > 
> > Although configurations are supposed to carry over when you upgrade using 
> > fedup, this part didn't seem to.  Of course I might have damaged things 
> > thrashing around.
> > 
> > I still don't know how to print from F18 using the printer driver on my 
> > CentOS 5 box.  It looks as if the failed attempts were using IPP (Internet 
> > Printing Protocol).  I don't care enough right now to keep experimenting.  
> > But it would be handy so that I could print from machines that didn't have 
> > the Brother proprietary drivers installed.
> > 
> > Thanks to all who helped.  It sure is nice to have my printer back.
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