Brother is registered trade marks of brother industries, ltd and its affliates in japan and in certain other countrie. all other trade marks mentioned in this documents or websites are the property of their respective owners.. Tour start here for a quick overview of the site help center detailed answers to any questions you might have meta discuss the workings and policies of this site. I have two network/usb all-in-ones that are in separate networks, brother mfc-7840w and brother mfc-9840cdw. the operating system is ubuntu 14.04 lts on a x86_64 system. usb works for printing and scanning for both..
Installing the driver manually isn't very difficult either, because brother has issued a generic install script for that: the driver install tool. with that, you can install not only the printer driver, but also (for a multifunctional printer) the scanner driver.. When you are using the distribution listed below, you can not scan from the machine connected to a usb port. distribution: fedora 15, fedora 16, opensuse 11.4, opensuse 12.1, mandriva 2011, ubuntu 11.10,. Scanner also works fine using brscan3 driver; the driver also needs activating. in ubuntu 11.10/12.04, this is also necessary to get the scanner working.printer and scanner both works fine after this..