Installing a Brother MFC-J220 printer in Slackware 3.1 32bit

trillobyte — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:19:10 GMT

Distribution: Slackware 13.1 (Update) These procedures relate to Slackware 14.0 64bit as well.
Distribution Edition: 32bit
Driver: mfcj220lpr-1.1.1-1.i386.rpm
Driver: mfcj220cupswrapper-1.1.1-3.i386.rpm
Driver: brscan3-0.2.11-4.i386.rpm
Driver: brscan-skey-0.2.1-3.i386.rpm
SANE version: Sane-1.0.21
CUPS version: cups-1.4.5
***Note***For 64bit Slackware you will need to install at least the glibc-solibs-2.15_multilib-x86_64-7alien.txz and cups-compat32-1.5.4-x86_64-2compat32.txz packages from http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/pe...multilib/14.0/because Brother drivers are only 32bit.

Download the drivers here: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com...nload_prn.html

The printer needs the scanner driver and scan-key-tool for brscan3 models.
Download from here: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com...nload_scn.html
Make sure you download the drivers that are available in the rpm format.

Create a sym link. 'ln -s /etc/rc.d/rc.cups /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups'. This
allows the CUPS daemon to be stopped and started during driver installation.

Run scripts from within a C shell rather than bash. i.e. at the bash prompt,
type 'csh'. The rpm format expects install scripts to run in a C shell.

Convert the rpm packages to native Slackware tgz packages using rpm2tgz.
Example: rpm2tgz -c -n -d mfcj220lpr-1.1.1-1.i386.rpm
Example: rpm2tgz -c -n -d mfcj220cupswrapper-1.1.1-3.i386.rpm

Install the newly created packages.
Note: you must install the LPR package first per Brothers instructions.

Change to the cupswrapper directory

Code:

cd /opt/brother/Printers/mfcj220/cupswrapper/

Now, run the cups wrapper

Code:

./cupswrappermfcj220

You should see that cups was restarted and all you have to do now is setup your printer with "localhost:631" from your
web-browser.

************************SETTING UP THE SCANNER*************************************

Convert the rpm packages to native Slackware tgz packages using rpm2tgz.
Example: rpm2tgz brscan3-0.2.11-4.i386.rpm
Install the newly created package.

Change to the sane directory.

Code:

cd /usr/local/Brother/sane

Now, run the setupSaneScan3 file

Code:

./setupSaneScan3 -i

less /etc/sane.d/dll.conf <------- You should see an entry for brother3 in the list.

In order for a normal user to use the scanner you must add the following line to
/lib/udev/rules.d/80-libsane.rules.

Code:

# Brother MFC-J220
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0259", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

You only need to know the idProduct which can be obtained from the output of 'lsusb' Also, remember that for a normal user to be able to use the scanner, they need to be a member of the 'scanner' group. Upon reconnection, the presence of the udev rule should trigger the creation of the appropriate device file entries for the scanner to be accessed.

***********SETTING UP BRSCAN-SKEY <-----Scanning to a File******************

Convert the rpm packages to native Slackware tgz packages using rpm2tgz.
Example: rpm2tgz brscan-skey-0.2.1-3.i386.rpm
Install the newly created package.

Change to the sane directory.

Code:

cd /opt/brother/scanner/brscan-skey

run brscan-skey-0.2.1-3.sh

Code:

./brscan-skey.0.2.1-3.sh

This creates a brscan-skey-0.2.1-3.cfg file in the same folder.

UPDATE. Special thanks to User Francoise who has informed me that Brother Solutions now installs brscan-skey to /opt/brother/scanner.

That's it! To run the server daemon, type brscan-skey. You should now be able to scan by using your printer's
scan button. For more information go to this page: http://www.linuxplanet.org/blogs/?cat=1354

Note: The MFC-J220 has a built-in fax. No PC required.

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