brother printer not supported (new)MFC-J615W

This page
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BrotherDriverPackaging

says
Drivers for new Brother printers are still missing. They need to be packaged (probably in a -extra1 package) from the sources in Brother website : http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/

where the link says
DCP-J715W, MFC-J615W are available on brscan3 (An additional process required) (2010.Jun.3)

brscan3 is there
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_scn.html#brscan3

How to install .deb files
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingSoftware#Installing%20downloaded%20packages

nothing is working

run this as ONE big command for the printer:

mkdir ~/print; cd ~/print; wget http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfcj615wlpr-1.1.1-1.i386.deb; sudo dpkg -i ./mfcj615wlpr-1.1.1-1.i386.deb; wget http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfcj615wcupswrapper-1.1.1-1.i386.deb; sudo dpkg -i ./mfcj615wcupswrapper-1.1.1-1.i386.deb; sudo apt-get -f install; cd; rm -r ~/print

For the scanner, run:

mkdir ~/scan; cd scan; wget http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/brscan3-0.2.11-4.i386.deb; sudo dpkg -i ./brscan3-0.2.11-4.i386.deb; rm ./brscan3-0.2.11-4.i386.deb; sudo apt-get -f install; cd; rm ~/scan

Reboot with the printer attached and you should be fine. Brother MAKE linux drivers:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html

Did you not think to check their site for support?

the print driver can be downloaded from the link below, or do what actionparsnip has suggested.

http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#MFC-J615W

My commands are just CLI versions of what you would do to install, download the file and install it and in the right order. Brother have awesome Linux support (albeit only 32bit for printers) but it's nice how we can direct link to files.

Thanks I am able to add printer following actionparsnip said on 2011-02-17:

mkdir ~/print; cd ~/print; wget http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfcj615wlpr-1.1.1-1.i386.deb; sudo dpkg -i ./mfcj615wlpr-1.1.1-1.i386.deb; wget http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfcj615wcupswrapper-1.1.1-1.i386.deb; sudo dpkg -i ./mfcj615wcupswrapper-1.1.1-1.i386.deb; sudo apt-get -f install; cd; rm -r ~/print

I had to edit /etc/hosts and added the third line below the BRN001BA956BDE6 will be different for each printer i just copied and pasted it from the printer set up tool

noti sure if this helped to fix the issue after i ran the script (the 2nd one worked for me) but it may help someone.

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 psutton-Inspiron-1011
192.168.1.10 BRN001BA956BDE6

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

actionparsnip, thanks for the handy cut-and-pasteable

to continue, thanks for the handy set of commands to do the setup. However, shouldn't the last command on the scanner setup be "rm -r ~/scan" ? It took me a bit to figure out where the stray "scan" directory had come from when I noticed it in my home folder later. Otherwise, great instructions and a nice timesaver compared to installing the drivers manually. Thanks!

ON a related note I have mine working however it is reporting that the ink is low and refuses to print, I have now shared my priner via windows and told linux to look at the windows box to access the printer, which works fine

oddly windows prints fine, and the printer prints fine from sd cards etc, is there a bug somewhere that is telling cups or what ever controls the printer) that there is low ink or something, there must be a cause, hopefully I will actually run out of ink soon (not much left) and be able to replace the cartridges adn try again directly from ubuntu --> printer and see if that works -

Paul

When you install look out for errors relating to missing directories, create them as root then try running the script to install everything again,