Brother Printer mfc-j6520dw

[Gordon]

Hi Folks

Bought myself the above printer after I had found and download the drivers for the printer. The problem is that it is supposed to be WIFI only I can't get it to work.
The printer itself has found and logged onto my router with no trouble but I can't get it to print so I assume that I am missing a driver for the computer or do I have to do something else. I have been on the brother site to check for a wifi driver but there doesn't appear to be one. I have tried several other sites for info but with no luck so far. Any assistance out there please as I surely need it 

[VastOne]

Do you have all of the CUPS apps installed? If not run the vsido-welcome script to install them

[PackRat]

The printer itself has found and logged onto my router with no trouble

How did you connect the printer to the wireless? If you used WPS or AOSS one touch setup, your computer would have had to been connected the same way in order to see the printer. You may need to set up the printer manually if you have not done so already.

I have been on the brother site to check for a wifi driver but there doesn't appear to be one

I think if you get cups installed as vastone suggests, you can use the cups printer driver. Looks straight forward.

[Gordon]

Hi VastOne and PackRat.

@ VastOne.  As far as I am aware all cups is loaded but having said that I went onto synaptic package manager and ticked a load of other cups stuff including system-config-printer and it failed to download anything, something to do with broken packages.

@ PackRat. I connected to my router using the on board wizard on the printer which connects every time with no trouble. its getting the computer to use my router that is the ( or seems to be ) the problem. Even localhost:631 doesn't work.

Anyway thanks to both for your valued time and assistance. been at it for about 3 hours now and still trying 

[PackRat]

Is your computer using the same router to connect to the internet, or are you setting up some sort of print server?

Also looks like cups may be broken and the service may not be starting. You can try -

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systemctl list-unit-files | grep cups

or

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systemctl --all | grep cups


in a terminal to see the status of the cups.service.

There is also

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systemctl --state=failed

which will show if cups failed to start, I think.

[Gordon]

Hi PackRat,

Thanks for that.

Your first command came up

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cups.path                               enabled
cups-browsed.service              enabled
cups.service                           enabled
cups.socket                           enabled

the other two came up with

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Failed to get D-Bus connection: Unknown error -1


How do I start D-Bus please ?

[PackRat]

That's systemd not communicating with dbus - dbus should be running; not sure how to clear that error for your system. Looks like cups is enabled not sure why the interface isn't coming up in your browser.

[Gordon]

Hi PackRat

Just noticed that I never answered the first part of you post

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Is your computer using the same router to connect to the internet, or are you setting up some sort of print server?


the answer to which is that I use the same router for everything.

I have just remembered that a have a USB Adaptor which doesn't work either although I think it is supported. It is a Netgear WG111v2 which uses a realtek driver RTL8187L so I am trying to sort that as well 

[jedi]

Hey Gordon,
Try the following;

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sudo adduser "yourusernameherenoquotes" lpadmin

Then restart your browser, clear the cache (web history) and try to login to 'cups' again.  From there you should be able to load the cups driver as PackRat suggested!

[Gordon]

Hi jedi

thanks for that. I am already a member lpadmin but I  keep trying

[PackRat]

Even localhost:631 doesn't work.

Can you elaborate on this. Do you go to the cups interface and just can't do anything, or does your browser not even display the localhost:631?

[Gordon]

Hi PackRat

I mean that localhost:631 wouldn't sort out the problem, it will only let me print via cable not wireless. Can't even get it to work on windows 8 either for that matter and it is supposed to be a windows printer. Something to do with the realtek RTL8187L driver. I have it downloaded for Linux but have to learn about make makefile and other stuff now

[PackRat]

There should be a README file that goes through the install steps.

Check that firmware-realtek is installed on your computer. It's installed by default, but may have removed somehow. Your driver may be in there.

[Gordon]

Hi PackRat.

found the firmware-realtek file thing it is in usr/share/bug, I assume from that that it is in the wrong place, where should it be ? and can I just move it ?

cheers

[PackRat]

It should be installed. Use synaptic to make sure it is installed. You should be able to search/filter for broken packages as well. You got a broken package message earlier, right?