[SOLVED] Brother_MFC-J5330DW intermittently unavailable on wireless network, might WICD help?
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Activating and deactivating the firewall seems to make no difference at all, I still get the same output when I try to ping the printer. When I ping the printer using that ip address on a windows computer on the same wifi network it works fine. Strangely I can't even access my modem's admin page at 192.168.0.1 though again the windows computer has no problems. So my problem isn't just with the printer. But how can I be on the internet if I can't even log in to the router? Anything else I can try to narrow down where the problem might be?
Oops, posted my last post without seeing the previous posts on page 2.
Yes, NordVPN. Tried disconnecting before starting this thread but that didn't seem to make any difference. Maybe if I uninstalled the software too.
Okay, here's where I'm up to. Disconnected NordVPN, then ran
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sudo iptables -F
. This killed my internet connection. I disabled NordVPN in autostart and rebooted. Internet is back. Ping now returns:
rjh@rjh-NUC8i5BEH:~$ ping 192.168.0.14
PING 192.168.0.14 (192.168.0.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.0.14: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=585 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.14: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=454 ms
^C
--- 192.168.0.14 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 454.013/519.619/585.226/65.606 ms
Skanlite can now find the scanner and make scans. The printer still doesn't print though. A test page from the printer dialogue or pages from Libreoffice writer appear briefly in the print queue, spool, then disappear. No error messages at the pc end or on the printer, but nothing happens. Rebooted printer, checked that a windows pc can still print to it. Am scratching my head and trying to figure out what to do next. Try diferent connection in CUPS maybe?
As to where 192.168.0.14 is in my network setup I have no idea. Is there a command that would return this?
Re where the printer is in the network setup this is my best effort so far.
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rjh@rjh-NUC8i5BEH:~$ ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eno1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 1c:69:7a:0d:83:11 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname enp0s31f6
3: wlp0s20f3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 38:00:25:8b:44:0d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.0.12/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlp0s20f3
valid_lft 81832sec preferred_lft 81832sec
inet6 2001:8003:6051:9d01:4bf8:ad09:2d47:5d11/64 scope global temporary dynamic
valid_lft 4769sec preferred_lft 4769sec
inet6 2001:8003:6051:9d01:69a0:d762:3b9a:f16/64 scope global dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute
valid_lft 4769sec preferred_lft 4769sec
inet6 fe80::67f:3ffc:f2df:efa7/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
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rjh@rjh-NUC8i5BEH:~$ ip route
default via 192.168.0.1 dev wlp0s20f3 proto dhcp metric 600
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp0s20f3 scope link metric 1000
192.168.0.0/24 dev wlp0s20f3 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.12 metric 600
And where the printer (192.168.0.14) sits in all this:
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rjh@rjh-NUC8i5BEH:~$ ip route get 192.168.0.14
192.168.0.14 dev wlp0s20f3 src 192.168.0.12 uid 1000
cache
Hooray - it works! I assume it was NordVPN causing the problem. Now when I go into the CUPS interface and begin to modify the printer it recognises the printer sitting there, recommends a connection, (ipp://Brother%20MFC-J5330DW._ipp._tcp.local/) recommends a driver and sets the whole thing up.
This all makes sense now as I turn my VPN on and off a fair bit - on if I think I'm doing something dodgy, off if I want to watch streaming sport (which doesn't work if you have a VPN running).
For anyone trying to follow this the trick seems to be that the computer had to be restarted after disabling NordVPN for the printer to work again. Then it probably would have printed if not for a printer connection change I made along the way.
Assuming the printer stays fixed this time I just need to figure out how to run my VPN without it messing up the network, but that's probably better left for another thread if it comes to that.
To those who helped many thanks again. Anything else I should note for others before marking this as solved?
Skanlite can now find the scanner and make scans. The printer still doesn't print though. A test page from the printer dialogue or pages from Libreoffice writer appear briefly in the print queue, spool, then disappear. No error messages at the pc end or on the printer, but nothing happens.
Thanks for the update. Good to know that the printer is working as expected. Check the route table after the VPN is disabled. Sometimes stale routes can cause issues.
The VPN when connected will route all traffic through the tunnel and not the LAN so accessing local devices does not work. Using split tunneling will allow both.
As far as I can tell this is the appropriate driver. It never really seemed like this would be a driver issue since it worked perfectly when it did work.
The route table is currently
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rjh@rjh-NUC8i5BEH:~$ ip route
default via 192.168.0.1 dev wlp0s20f3 proto dhcp metric 600
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp0s20f3 scope link metric 1000
192.168.0.0/24 dev wlp0s20f3 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.12 metric 600
but unfortunately I don't know if anything there is stale. (I've spent hours reading about networking over the last couple of days but I'm finding it a bit impenetrable. Even "basic" tutorials quickly lose me. Also I suspect some of the terminology is interchangeable so what they say to do in a how-to doesn't match what you see in your own settings. I suspect it takes a fair bit of concerted study to get on top of all this stuff.)
Re split tunneling I'll do some research but that sounds rather black-belt.
One last thing, I assume it would be appropriate to edit the title of this thread to better reflect that it relates primarily to VPN issues. And should it be moved to networking maybe?
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