On 2017-08-05, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 20:19:33 -0400, Jape Person wrote: > >> On 08/04/2017 06:39 PM, Brian wrote: >> >> It's sad, isn't it? There must be enough Linux / Unix folks using brother >> printers to make it worth Brother's trouble to provide a utility for this. I >> guess most environments have either Windows or Mac available, but mine >> didn't until I got the little NUC. $300 so I can do firmware upgrades. >> >> Making lemonade, I'll probably try to play some old games on the little box. >> There's always a silver lining. > > I wonder whether wine would help (with installing the firmware, I mean). >
I was wondering whether a native utility like flashrom could be used for this. However when I looked at the Brother firmware executable to see whether the firmware part could be extracted, I found that in fact the exe file doesn't contain the firmware at all, but rather downloads the latter from a Brother internet server somewhere in the cloud and then installs into the printer. Frankly I would be leery of going through the procedure without a lot of wine for fear of bricking my device. -- “Certitude is not the test of certainty.” --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
