Brother HL-2240D does not connect with Xubuntu 20.04

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 00:47, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> Oh, right.  The note is meaningless to me now because I don't remember
> why it was there.

Typo? 2140 for 2240?

Sounds like inadequate note-taking. Don't feel bad. It's normal!

I used to train people on software. Inadequate notes are almost the norm.
I'd show them a complex 15-step process, and they'd write down  4-5 steps.
I told them it wasn't enough. They invariably said it was. The only way
round this I found was to time our lunch break to then. When they came back
after lunch, they found out their short-term memory of the steps was gone,
and as I'd told them, their notes of perhaps a quarter of the steps was not
enough.

Then some of them started making proper notes.

I think this is one reason many companies want people with degrees. Doing a
degree tends to teach people to take proper, detailed notes.

When I do courses now, I take 15-20 pages of notes where my colleagues take
1 or 2. A month later they are amazed and baffled that I can do the task,
and praise my super-human memory. 🙄

You need to take much more elaborate notes!

> >>...  I thought that odd
> > > because for 18.04 I installed the Brother printer driver file (which I
> > > also no longer have - foo).
> >
> > Why don't you have it? Does it no longer work?
> >
> I don't remember what it was called and it's not in my usual places
> for keeping such things.

Is it not still out there for download?

> I don't know if my Wine is up to date (haven't tried it recently), but
> that shouldn't matter.

I suspect it won't help.

> > Very odd. Can you try with a live USB?
> >
> I did - no response there either.  It shows up in lsusb, but the
> system does not pay any attention to it.

Drivers? Did you check the drivers control panel/settings page?
>
> My partner's laptop has a Win10 boot on it, and that recognized the
> device, but I don't recall if it showed up as a WiFi connection - at
> the time I was only checking what Netgear told me - see if Windows
> recognizes it (so I could update the firmware, which I also did not).

Why not?!

> My focus these days is almost entirely on getting past the problem,
> not so much analyzing it in detail for future reference.  I'm slipping
> in my seniority...

Make more notes!

And upgrade all the firmware you can, every time!

I am a 1st time father of a 1YO at 52, under quarantine. I know the problem
of not having enough time and attention to spare. I really do.

MAKE MORE NOTES!

> Thanks - that may come in handy.  I presume it does not do Windows as
> a live boot - is there such a thing?

There is no such thing from MS as a live Windows disk, no.

There are 3rd party ones but they are incomplete and failure-prone. I avoid
them.

Win10 does have a special recovery environment  but it's hard to get to,
doesn't work on all computers, and much of the documented steps don't work.
Linux knowledge helps.

> If they go, I'll upgrade to some powerhouse hardware better than what
> I have now - probably a Ryzen high end CPU, 64G or new RAM, new power
> supply, maybe new case too.

Well, as you wish.

Personally, these days, I use older and older kit. It's cheap and it's
simpler -- no UEFI and other pain points. Older laptops invariably have
better keyboards, too -- modern ones are rubbish.

> No self-deprecation required - you're far more up-to-date than I am.
> My COVID coma took a lot out of me, and it's not all back yet even
> after 6+ months of recuperation.  Lousy excuse, but so it is.

Oh dear. Sorry to hear that. I didn't know you'd had it.

I live in the country with the highest infection rates in the EU, and as an
obese middle-aged asthmatic, I'm quietly terrified.

This too doesn't help the concentration.

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