Re: Newbie in need of serious help

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.



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