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Brother Scanner MFC-845CW
I have a Brother multi-function machine (ten years old but well built and
reliable). The printing function ha worked on XP, Window 10 and every Linux distro release to date. The scanner has worked on most Linux releases until the last batch. The last one that still works is Mageia 5 (now unsupported). But I have never got it to work under Windows XP and now Windows 10. Both versions are 32-bit virtuual machines now running on either Mageia 5 or Ubuntu 10.04 (to which I am trying migrate) as host. I have exhausted all the Linux sources of help but I would be delighted to get it work on anything. In XP the camera and scanner wizard just goes to sleep. -- Ubuntu 18.04, kernel 4.15.0-33-generic, Cinnamon 3.6.7 running on an AMD Phenom II X4 Black edition. |
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Brother Scanner MFC-845CW
On 09/03/2018 06:08 PM, pinnerite wrote:
I have a Brother multi-function machine (ten years old but well built and reliable). The printing function ha worked on XP, Window 10 and every Linux distro release to date. The scanner has worked on most Linux releases until the last batch. The last one that still works is Mageia 5 (now unsupported). But I have never got it to work under Windows XP and now Windows 10. Both versions are 32-bit virtuual machines now running on either Mageia 5 or Ubuntu 10.04 (to which I am trying migrate) as host. I have exhausted all the Linux sources of help but I would be delighted to get it work on anything. In XP the camera and scanner wizard just goes to sleep. Is the printer USB? I read that making a USB port visible on the Guest OS is supposed to be simple but I'm having issues in Virtualbox VM. I 2 cents is if you're using a VM to run all this software and trying to connect to a USB printer then you may have issues due to the USB not passing through to the Guest OS. We'd have to know more about what VM you are running and are you really running any/all test OSs on the VM. |
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Brother Scanner MFC-845CW
Big Al wrote:
On 09/03/2018 06:08 PM, pinnerite wrote: I have a Brother multi-function machine (ten years old but well built and reliable). The printing function ha worked on XP, Window 10 and every Linux distro release to date. The scanner has worked on most Linux releases until the last batch. The last one that still works is Mageia 5 (now unsupported). But I have never got it to work under Windows XP and now Windows 10. Both versions are 32-bit virtuual machines now running on either Mageia 5 or Ubuntu 10.04 (to which I am trying migrate) as host. I have exhausted all the Linux sources of help but I would be delighted to get it work on anything. In XP the camera and scanner wizard just goes to sleep. Is the printer USB? I read that making a USB port visible on the Guest OS is supposed to be simple but I'm having issues in Virtualbox VM. I 2 cents is if you're using a VM to run all this software and trying to connect to a USB printer then you may have issues due to the USB not passing through to the Guest OS. We'd have to know more about what VM you are running and are you really running any/all test OSs on the VM. The status of this feature has changed with time. The first time I tried to get passthru working on VirtualBox (in Windows), it took three tries of installing and uninstalling stuff. I eventually got it working, but without discovering what I'd done differently. As of this date in 2018, the USB passthru in Linux is busted with VirtualBox. Windows is working (to a point). I chose as a test case, to try to get USB webcams working. Mistake. Win10 FrameServe, a "feature" added by an idiot, has broken webcams, and left them broken. I got as far as seeing them in device Manager. But the Windows FrameServer appears to be ****ing over my data stream. I connected two cameras in passthru, a ViMicro 640x480 camera ("$10 class"), which due to its simplicity doesn't normally cause a problem. This is a camera in a flexible waterproof tube, used for inspecting behind walls or in plumbing. It comes with LEDs on the front, to illuminate the work. Well, I got squat out of that. For the Logitech 9000 Pro camera, I tries installing the LSW280.exe package. The package "detected" the camera in the Guest OS. And the driver was installed. But like what happened after the Microsoft frameserve was added to the OS, the capture window opens (indicating contact made), but the window remains black. Almost as if the connection to the camera is frozen/looping. I managed *once* to squeeze a single frame out of that little ****er. And that was it. Sometimes I get as far as the orange ring on the 9000 lights up. Other times it won't do that. I have to shut down both the Guest and the Host and reboot both, to make another attempt. A USB scanner won't be near as bad as that. As long as the evil FrameServe isn't tied into that subsystem... ******* Pictures: https://s33.postimg.cc/3jrkuk97z/host_packages.gif https://s33.postimg.cc/s09qp1x3z/dev...e_settings.gif https://s33.postimg.cc/c210yxq1b/OS_stuff_installed.gif https://s33.postimg.cc/tfbbdt0rz/wha...e_happened.gif I can get as far as showing two cameras in Device Manager, but that's about it. Stuff just jams up if I try and use it. https://s33.postimg.cc/u4u3q6ogv/being_taunted_now.gif ******* Paul |
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