BRO MFC-490CW Drivers Issue Again

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:

> From: Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>
> Subject: Re: BRO MFC-490CW Drivers Issue Again
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 1:46 AM
> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 17:32 -0800, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > Since the list convinced me of the dangers of using
> the --force-* dpkg
> > option
> 
> Since I was one of the perpetrators, let me clarify once
> again: the
> --force-arch that Brother requires (and even more so the
> --force-all
> that they require in some cases) is most likely not
> dangerous as such in
> this particular case, but we were opposed to it because
> 
>       * It is outright lazy, as the driver obviously works,
> they just
>         would have to spend the additional 5 minutes to
> create a package
>         for the 64 bit architecture
>       * Recommending to users to use --force-* as a matter
> of course is
>         similarly destructive to the FOSS computing culture
> as would be
>         recommending to Window users to click every
> weird-looking link
>         that they receive in the email
> 
> You know already that the driver works fine for you, so by
> all means go
> ahead and install it.
> 
> 
And I totally agree with you and Derek and didn't want to restart this flame/rant(whatever it's called) again. I just, for the record, wanted to know if there is an alternative install method using Brother's drivers of course that didn't require the --force option. Something like ndiswrapper or nspluginwrapper(names may be misspelled) that allow 32 bit installation on 64 bit machines. However, now that the rant has restarted, I doubt it will ever be answered. I'm trying to use an alternate method, if ther is one, so THAT I DON'T HAVE TO USE SUDO DPKG -FORCE-* OPTION AT ALL. Pardon the caps but I want to emphasise the point. 
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net