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driver for brother MFC-7420 printer

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Hi there!!

I have a Brother MFC-7420 Model AIO machine, and when I connected it to my computer, Ubuntu searched for a driver for it, but Ubuntu didn't find an appropriate driver for it, so I tried to install it manually, but when I opened the "Printers" window at the system menu bar, it always pop up a window that asking me for a username and a password and the username field is filled with the "root" string, but the password field is empty. and I tried to insert to the password field my own user account password, but it prompt me that the password may be incorrect. and even I click on the "cancel" button in order to exit from this error message, it don't work and Ubuntu pop up again the message that ask for a password.

In my opinion is that this is a bug. but if someone here think otherwise, I'll be very happy to know.

Thanks in advance!!

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atar (atar-u) said : 		#1

my ubuntu distribution is Oneiric-Ocelott

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Larry Jordan (larryjor) said : 		#2

     Sounds like two separate questions you are asking, since you are (still?) trying to install a printer driver? I'm on Meerkat (10.10), but never had a problem with Brother printers in Linux. For that part of your question, I would recommend just carefully following instructions for their driver at http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html (your printer is listed, and the site has directions).

     As far as this strange behavior goes with the root password, I would say keep asking on that one. Seems a little different than I have run into with older versions of Ubuntu.

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