[ubuntu-uk] Printer driver ...

[Simon Greenwood]

On 14 February 2011 16:41, Barry Drake <bdrake at crosswire.org> wrote:

> I decided to have a go with the AMD 64-bit version of Maverick.  I put
> it on a second hard drive so the 32-bit version is untouched.  All was
> fine until I wanted to use my Brother DCP 135C printer/scanner.  I
> looked at their Linux driver page, and the only drivers available are
> the ones I already have.  I get the error message that they are for the
> wrong architecture as they are i386 packages.
>
> I don't suppose there is a workaround for this?  The drivers are not
> open-source as far as I know.  Maybe I just have to stick with the 32
> bit Ubuntu?
>
>
If there is a deb package you should be able to force the install. My
experience with 64-bit came up with a few problems like that and now that
the PAE kernels are available, it's taken away the need for it for machines
with 4Gb of RAM or more.

s/

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