Newbie in need of serious help

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2005-01-27 05:53, Christopher Carr whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

> Well, No luck so far. I have read a lot of great messages from 
> everyone and you all are wonderful. I may just have to upgrade to a 
> multifunction unit that works with Linux, Truly do not want to go back 
> to Windows. Thanks for all the advice follks.

You might try finding a flea-market machine that you can pick up for a 
few bucks.  Something that is just able to run some version of Windows 
and the printer.  Then use Samba and CUPS to connect to the Linux 
machine.   (This presumes you can scan under Windows and transfer files 
over the network to the other machine.)   Unless you have a ready market 
for selling your current MFC, this might be cheaper than buying a new one. 

>
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 16:39 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>
>>Christopher Carr wrote:
>>> Hey folks, 
>>> I have been a WinXp user for years--Sorrrrrry, But I wiped it off and
>>> installed Fedora Core v3. I love it and I must say it runs soooooomuch
>>> better than Windows. All my peripherals work except my MFC from Brother.
>>> The particular model I have is the MFC-3820CN. The printer configuration
>>> has pretty much all but my unit. Brother has no updates or assistance to
>>> offer and I am clueless on working inside of Linux command lines. Please
>>> help, I need this machine to do my scanning and copying functions. I'd
>>> hate to have to wipe this off and put windows back on.
>>> 
>>> Thanks all, I hope to learn more from all your posts
>>> Christopher
>>> 
>>> 
>>Christopher,
>>     Try these sites but it does not look good for Brother MFC devices.
>>
>>http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-BROTHER
>>
>>http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Brother
>>
>>   regards   david
>>
>>    
>>


-- 
Fritz Whittington
TI Alum - http://www.tialumni.org

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