Need help configuring Brother DCP-J140W Wireless printer

[snowflake_nz]

UPDATE (14 March 2013)
I've managed to get the printer to work via usb and wireless, the scanner is still an issue, but for now it's a minor problem.
So here's what I finally did, can't remember where I read it, but it was on one of the Ubuntu forums.
Settings -> Printers -> Add printer.
Select the printer. When prompted to search for a driver or add a ppd manually -> choose to add a ppd file.
Got to the cupswrapper file and extract it. Then extract the data.tar.gz. Then you should see a folder named opt. Open the folder and all subfolders until you see the .ppd file.
Add the ppd file and sit back and enjoy printing.

Will update again as soon as I have figured out the scanner.


Hi all
I am totally at my wits end, you know, the stage just before you give up on *Nix and go back to Windoze because it's just easier?
Now this is my last resort.

For the past week and a half I have Googled and tried various settings and commands to get my wireless Brother DCP-J140W to work on Kubuntu 12.10 64-bit, as you now realise it's not been successful.
So is there anyone out there willing to help me?
Output of uname -a = Linux nakimum-HP-Pavilion-dm1-Notebook-PC 3.5.0-23-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 24 13:15:40 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

This is what I've done so far.
Went here (http://welcome.solutions.brother.com.../en/index.html) to find the drivers I needed.
And downloaded them (http://welcome.solutions.brother.com...html#DCP-J140W).

Now installing them was okay, no errors (that I know of).
Then I tried a few solutions that I Googled, but still no success.
Trying to configure the printer manually, oh gosh, yeah no, I don't know what to put in where.

Any help would really be appreciated.
TIA

[Detonate]

See my reply (#11) to this thread http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...70DW-in-system

[snowflake_nz]

Hello Detonate
thanks for the reply.
Here's what I did:
1) I uninstalled everything to do with the printer and started fresh.
2) I went to http://welcome.solutions.brother.com...tml#DCP-J140W; downloaded LPR driver and installed it without any problems.
3) Then I downloaded the cups wrapper driver and then I get a ERROR: CANNOT SATISFY DEPENDENCIES

any suggestions?

[Detonate]

Did you read the part about ia32-libs or lib32stdc++ needing to be installed? Try

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

then try again.

[snowflake_nz]

Hi
I installed aa-complain and the libs before starting out, but still get dependency error.

[Detonate]

I don't have any experience with this problem, maybe someone else can jump in and help out.

[snowflake_nz]

Hiya
no worries. At least you tried.
It's not a major issue. I've set up printing on Windows XP in VirtualBox. So I can still print, but I'd prefer to set up printing in Kubuntu. Will turn out to be a simple little thing that I've been overlooking.
Txs for the help so far

[oshunluvr]

Any output from:

sudo apt-get build-dep dcpj140wcupswrapper-1.1.3-6.i386.deb

[snowflake_nz]

Hi oshunluvr
thanks for the reply.
typed the command and here is the output. I do have dcpj140wcupswrapper downloaded, it's currently in my downloads folder

nakimum@nakimum-HP-Pavilion-dm1-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep dcpj140wcupswrapper-1.1.3-6.i386.deb
[sudo] password for nakimum:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for dcpj140wcupswrapper-1.1.3-6.i386.deb
nakimum@nakimum-HP-Pavilion-dm1-Notebook-PC:~$

[snowflake_nz]

Hi all
thanks for trying to help. I have solved this little problem.
* PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT THE DESIRED WAY OF SOLVING A PROBLEM, BUT IT'S MY WAY OF SOLVING

I installed ubuntu via konsole (sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop)
Then I logged into Ubuntu, installed cupswrapper (it come up with some issues, but clicked ignore and install). Opened printer configuration. And just had ubuntu search for drivers.
I am now able to print via Kubuntu and Ubuntu.
* please note further that scanning doesn't work yet, but as soon as I've got that figured out I'll post an update

[oshunluvr]

Odd, but great that you got it. I can't talk about your model, but I found this:

http://egressive.com/article/getting...and-linux-mint

[snowflake_nz]

lol, it was odd. Like I said, it would be a silly little thing that I was just missing

[snowflake_nz]

lol, it was odd. Like I said, it would be a silly little thing that I was just missing.
Thanks for the link. Will try it and see where I get. Scanning is thankfully not an issue

[snowflake_nz]

UPDATE 15/2/2013 - Scanner is now working as follows:
Gimp for Scan to image
Email - I use webmail interface.

What I've done is a combination of all of these. I still cannot scan from application interface, but am able to scan via usb only to Gimp or brscan folder.
1) Go look here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ras/+bug/72321 for #10
If your scanner is connected via USB, then you have to run "lsusb". This lists all your USB devices. Search for an entry which looks like your scanner. This, for example, is my scanner:

Bus 005 Device 005: ID 04f9:0184 Brother Industries, Ltd DCP-7025 Printer

The 4-digit numbers after "ID" are the ones you have to use in your udev rules. In this case:

SYSFS{idVendor}=="04f9", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0184", MODE="664", GROUP="scanner"

This instruction is quite similar to those from Brother: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/
There you also get the driver packages.

2) Follow instructions here: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com...ion_scn1b.html

3) Follow instructions here: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com...b.html#config1
$ brsaneconfig2 -a name=SCANNER model=DCP-540CN ip=192.168.3.3