Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Jape Person
On 08/05/2017 07:38 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 05/08/17 07:52, Jape Person wrote: It's funny (in much the same way that hitting your thumb with a hammer is funny) that the Brother support site does indeed list a later firmware update than the one I installed when I first got the printer. If on

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 05/08/17 07:52, Jape Person wrote: > It's funny (in much the same way that hitting your thumb with a hammer > is funny) that the Brother support site does indeed list a later > firmware update than the one I installed when I first got the printer. > If one looks at the driver update history at t

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Jape Person
On 08/05/2017 03:12 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 05 Aug 2017 at 14:44:46 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/05/2017 02:28 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 05 Aug 2017 at 13:12:40 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/05/2017 12:44 PM, Curt wrote: [A bit of snipping for poetical reasons]. Frankly I would be lee

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Brian
On Sat 05 Aug 2017 at 14:44:46 -0400, Jape Person wrote: > On 08/05/2017 02:28 PM, Brian wrote: > >On Sat 05 Aug 2017 at 13:12:40 -0400, Jape Person wrote: > > > >>On 08/05/2017 12:44 PM, Curt wrote: > > > >[A bit of snipping for poetical reasons]. > > > >>>Frankly I would be leery of going throug

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Jape Person
On 08/05/2017 02:28 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 05 Aug 2017 at 13:12:40 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/05/2017 12:44 PM, Curt wrote: [A bit of snipping for poetical reasons]. Frankly I would be leery of going through the procedure without a lot of wine for fear of bricking my device. A lot o

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Brian
On Sat 05 Aug 2017 at 13:12:40 -0400, Jape Person wrote: > On 08/05/2017 12:44 PM, Curt wrote: [A bit of snipping for poetical reasons]. > >Frankly I would be leery of going through the procedure without a lot of > >wine for fear of bricking my device. > > A lot of wine is almost always good.

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Jape Person
On 08/05/2017 12:44 PM, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-05, Brian 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 uti

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Curt
On 2017-08-05, Brian 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

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Jape Person
On 08/05/2017 08:52 AM, Brian 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 e

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Brian
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 Window

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW [off topic? I think.]

2017-08-05 Thread Charlie S
On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 08:58:39 + (UTC) Curt sent: > On 2017-08-05, Charlie wrote: > > > > > >> but I'm an old cat, and you know what they say about that > >> combination! > > > > > >> JP > > > > No, what do they say about that combination > > > > You snipped too enthusiastically, elim

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW [off topic? I think.]

2017-08-05 Thread Curt
On 2017-08-05, Charlie wrote: > > >> but I'm an old cat, and you know what they say about that combination! > > >> JP > > No, what do they say about that combination > You snipped too enthusiastically, eliminating the other part of the combination. Anyhow, curiosity killed it (the feline, that i

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW [off topic? I think.]

2017-08-04 Thread Charlie
> but I'm an old cat, and you know what they say about that combination! > JP No, what do they say about that combination

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 07:09 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 14:14:42 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/04/2017 08:25 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print d

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 07:02 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 16:10:13 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/04/2017 08:58 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 12:25:51 +, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showin

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 06:39 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 14:09:25 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/04/2017 06:37 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 03 Aug 2017 at 21:39:43 -0400, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brothe

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 14:14:42 -0400, Jape Person wrote: > On 08/04/2017 08:25 AM, Curt wrote: > >On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: > >>A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems > >>started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print > >>dialogs and in the CUPS pr

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 16:10:13 -0400, Jape Person wrote: > On 08/04/2017 08:58 AM, Brian wrote: > >On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 12:25:51 +, Curt wrote: > > > >>On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: > >>>A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems > >>>started showing a new driver for ou

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 14:09:25 -0400, Jape Person wrote: > On 08/04/2017 06:37 AM, Brian wrote: > >On Thu 03 Aug 2017 at 21:39:43 -0400, Jape Person wrote: > > > >>A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems > >>started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print > >

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 08:58 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 12:25:51 +, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in t

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 08:25 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer utility. You'd think that w

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 08:58 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 12:25:51 +, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in t

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 08:25 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer utility. You'd think that w

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 06:37 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 03 Aug 2017 at 21:39:43 -0400, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer util

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 12:25:51 +, Curt wrote: > On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: > > A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started > > showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in > > the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Curt
On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: > A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started > showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in > the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer utility. > > You'd think that was good news, but we've been

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Brian
On Thu 03 Aug 2017 at 21:39:43 -0400, Jape Person wrote: > A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing > a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS > printer list and in the system-config-printer utility. > > You'd think that was goo

pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-03 Thread Jape Person
A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer utility. You'd think that was good news, but we've been unable to find any way to make the queue