Brother MFC490-CW Drivers for Printer?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Mon, 10/12/09, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Brother MFC490-CW Drivers for Printer?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Monday, October 12, 2009, 10:56 PM
> On 10/12/2009 02:43 PM, Leonard
> Chatagnier wrote:
> > Does anyone know for sure if the following printer
> drivers listed from aptitude search brother will work on the
> subject printer. I can use the Brother supplied deb files on
> their site but it's a little tedious and requires use of
> --force-architecture dpkg option as I've done on previous
> versions of Ubuntu but would rather use a packaged ubuntu
> driver if possible.  If anyone out their with this
> printer using any of the packaged driver files below please
> let me know:
> > 
> > p   brother-cups-wrapper-ac 
>                
>                
>     - Cups Wrapper drivers for ac brother
> printers
> > p   brother-cups-wrapper-bh7 
>                
>                
>    - Cups Wrapper drivers for bh7 brother
> printers
> > p   brother-cups-wrapper-common 
>                
>                 -
> Common files for Brother cups wrapper packages
> > p   brother-cups-wrapper-extra 
>                
>              
>    - Cups Wrapper drivers for extra brother
> printers
> > p   brother-cups-wrapper-laser 
>                
>              
>    - Cups Wrapper drivers for laser brother
> printers
> > p   brother-cups-wrapper-laser1 
>                
>                 -
> Cups Wrapper drivers for laser1 brother printers
> >
> p   brother-cups-wrapper-mfc9420cn 
>                
>              - Cups
> Wrapper drivers for mfc9420cn brother printers
> > p   brother-lpr-drivers-ac   
>                
>                
>    - LPR drivers for ac brother printers
> > p   brother-lpr-drivers-bh7 
>                
>                
>     - LPR drivers for bh7 brother printers
> > p   brother-lpr-drivers-common 
>                
>              
>    - Common files for brother-lpr-drivers
> packages
> > p   brother-lpr-drivers-extra 
>                
>                
>   - LPR drivers for extra brother printers
> > p   brother-lpr-drivers-laser 
>                
>                
>   - LPR drivers for laser brother printers
> > p   brother-lpr-drivers-laser1 
>                
>              
>    - LPR drivers for laser1 brother printers
> > p   brother-lpr-drivers-mfc9420cn 
>                
>               - LPR
> driver for mfc9420cn brother printer
> > Leonard Chatagnier
> > lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> > 
> 
> This might be of interest:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/441897
> [Brother printer MFC-230 C not detected with drivers
> installed in
> Karmic, worked in Jaunty]
> 
> Note: also note the "wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64" errors...
> Maybe
> related to the other issue off-list?
> 
> YADT64bI... (Yet Another Double-Trouble 64bit Issue) :-)
> Probably should be modified to:
> YADT64bKDEI
> 
> 
Right on both accounts but also applies to gnome 32 bit in at least one case maybe two.  I'll check the link too.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net