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**Iangh** · Aug 06, 2020, 04:03 PM

Sorry to hear you're having problems. I have the 2750 and have it working fine on 20.04. Here's the notes I followed.

MFC-L2710DW
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspo...-printers.html (see bit re scanner)
https://support.brother.com/g/b/down...ng=4&type3=625
Printer 192.168.0.118 (make a note of your printer's IP address before starting as you need to it during install. Use router to make it static)
gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.2-1.gz
bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.2-1 MFC-L2710DW
say Yes for network (at some stage I have to say yes to network)

I recently installed Kubuntu on my wife's latest PC a month ago and used these snippets to get it working OK. I suggest following the instructions on Brother's site (below, remember to sudo) and checking EasyLinux page if you have problems after installing. I use Skanlite and gscan2pdf for scanning.

Step1. Download the tool.(linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-*.gz)
The tool will be downloaded into the default "Download" directory.
(The directory location varies depending on your Linux distribution.)
e.g. /home/(LoginName)/Download
Step2. Open a terminal window.
Step3. Go to the directory you downloaded the file to in the last step. By using the cd command.
e.g. cd Downloads
Step4. Enter this command to extract the downloaded file:
Command: gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-*.gz
e.g. gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-2.1.1-1.gz
Step5. Get superuser authorization with the "su" command or "sudo su" command.
Step6.

Run the tool:
Command: bash linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-* Brother machine name
e.g. bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.1.1-1 MFC-J880DW
Step7. The driver installation will start. Follow the installation screen directions.

When you see the message "Will you specify the DeviceURI ?",
For USB Users: Choose N(No)
For Network Users: Choose Y(Yes) and DeviceURI number.
The install process may take some time. Please wait until it is complete.

**jlittle** · Aug 06, 2020, 06:31 PM

I have a Brother MFC-J5330DW, connected via the LAN, and in 16.04 and 18.04 I installed brother drivers. Back in 2016 it was a mission to track down the installer scripts for linux; I eventually found them on some random nation's brother support site.

And then, I did a clean install of 20.04. Printer and scanner worked without installing anything brother specific.

[Edit] After posting, I rebooted to the Kubuntu 20.04 iso, and without installing anything it printed, and scanned with skanlite. If this is not your experience, blueberry, I expect it is because you are connecting the printer via a USB cable. These days, it's much more convenient to connect a printer to your network, then anything on the network can use it, even smartphones. However, if the printer doesn't have Wifi (like the MFC-L2710DW) that can mean locating the printer near the router, or an access point, or an ethernet jack.

Now, when I did install drivers, there were no i386 packages involved. I used linux-brprinter-installer-2.1.1-1 and brscan4-0.4.4-4.amd64.deb. It installed lots of stuff to /opt/brother, and in the scanner/brscan4/models4 directory there's 20 .ini files with "Support Model" sections and "MFC-L2710DW" is in the last one. On 18.04 the only glitch was that the scanner .deb needed the libusb-0.1 package to work. (I don't understand that, as USB is not involved and the .deb should specify that dependency if it's needed.) So to install stuff on 18.04 the steps were:

sudo ./linux-brprinter-installer-2.1.1-1
sudo apt install libusb-0.1
sudo dpkg -i brscan4-0.4.4-4.amd64.deb
brsaneconfig4 -a name=paul model=MFC-J5330DW ip=192.168.1.201

(For that last step, I use the LAN's router to fix the brother's IP address.)

On 18.04 I ended up with two printers showing in system settings; Kubuntu kept adding one it found on the network, and I couldn't tell it not to. Annoying, but I gave up and disabled one of them.

**blueberry** · Aug 13, 2020, 10:35 AM

Thanks Iangh and Jlittle.

Eventually I had to settle for Wi-Fi connection. I am writing what I did as experience if someone else has the same problem.
It took many many hours for me to try to fix it and couldn't fix the USB connection. The driver licence is GPL2 and I hope people designing Kubuntu or Debian can include the driver automatically in the Kubuntu in a way that resolves all the problems, particularly for USB connection.

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I went through the advice given by Brother technical help, uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them again trying for USB.
The USB connection worked for printing but still did not work for the scan.
A driverless version of the printer was coming up in the printer models present in the printer config. Brother technical advisor said that they tried the driver on a PC and it was working. Brother technical help believed there was something wrong in the Kubuntu system which may be resolved by a clean reinstallation of Kubuntu.

I did not reinstall Kubuntu – hoping to fix the printer.

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I installed printer drivers under windows where the USB connection worked.
Using Windows brother utilities I set the printer IP

In Kubuntu, I reinstalled the drivers using the driver install tool “linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.2-1.gz” with the network option to connect via Lan - using the printer IP for Lan; couldn't get the computer apps to connect to the printer.

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So tried the Wi-Fi, paired the printer with the router.

Then in Kubuntu’s printers setup/configuration, changed the printer IP as it was showing for Wi-Fi
In Kubuntu’s printers configuration, I set the printer called MFCL2710DW as the default printer; the driver for this was showing as “current- Brother MFCL2710DW for cups”.
Again printing worked but scanning did not work.
I used the "brsaneconfig4" advised in the last line of jlittle advise (above) to give the correct IP to the scan driver.
# brsaneconfig4 -a name=leaf model=MFC-L2710DW ip= ... (typed the printer IP)

The scanning apps (Skanlite and gscan2pdf) started to work without error.
As advised I also made the IP static via router. As to the other advice:
- I did not have to copy any installed brother drivers from /lib64/sane to /lib.
- I checked the package manager libusb-0.1-0 and libusb-0.1-4 were already installed.

I removed all the extra printers showing in the system setting module but the “Brother_MRC_L2710DW_series driverless printer” kept coming back, I suppose because it is a default driver.

After computer restart, Printing worked without problem. However Skanlite couldn't find the correct scanner, but gscan2pdf brought up the correct device name (leaf) as default and scanning worked with it.

Seeing Skanlite was not working properly, again I uninstalled all drivers and reinstalled them with Wi-Fi connection in mind.

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Uninstall:
dpkg -P brscan-skey
dpkg -P brscan4

dpkg -P mfcl2710dwpdrv:i386

Install:
gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.2-1.gz
bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.2-1 MFC-L2710DW
Will you specify the Device URI? [Y/n] →y

16 (A): Auto. (dnssd://Brother%20MFC-L2710DW%20series._ipp._tcp.local/?uuid=e3248000-80ce-11db-8000-3c2af45b9b41)
select the number of destination Device URI. ->16
enter IP address ->...( typed the printer IP)

brsaneconfig4 -a name=MFC-L2710DW model=MFC-L2710DW ip= (showed the printer IP)

After installation and restart of the computer – test results:

Skanlite
Skanlite brought up four different devices
First: Brother MFC-L2710DW brother4:net1;dev0 - scanning worked.

The other three did not work:
Brother MFC-L2710DW brother4:bus2;dev1 - error message: opening the selected scanner failed.
ESCL MFC-L2710DW series escl:http://127.0.0.1.60000 - error message: opening the selected scanner failed.
ESCL Brother MFC-L2710DW series escl:http://(correct printer IP):80 - the scanner activated but after scanning gave error message: invalid argument

gscan2pdf
gscan2pdf brought up four devices

First: Brother MFC-L2710DW on brother4:net1;dev0 – scanning worked.

The other three devices did not work:
The second Brother MFC-L2710DW on brother4:bus2;dev1 gave error message: opening device 'brother4:bus2;dev1': Invalid argument
The third ESCL Brother MFC-L2710DW series gave error argument gscan2pdf:sane_start: Invalid argument
The fourth ESCL MFC-L2710DW series gave error message: escl:http:/127.0.0.1:600000 Device busy

Printers - system settings module
Two devices could be seen both of which worked:
First
• Brother_MFC_L2710DW_series
Kind: Brother MFC-L2710DW series, driverless, cups-filters 1.27.4
It worked printing a test page
- however after printing, in the settings module it was showing its status as “Idle - waiting for job to complete”.
Second
• MFCL2710DW
Kind: Brother MFCL2710DW for cups
It worked printing a test page
- after printing status was showing simply as Idle.

I made the second the default printer.

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