I have taken a step back from the printer problem and went to the brother site and looked for scanner drivers. I found the latest scanner drivers for the DCP-7040 and installed them. I also loaded the XSane image scanner utility. I now have the scanner function working ( at least a test scan worked).
Getting back to the printer driver problem, that is not solved. The question was asked "is it a brother problem" and the answer is yes. I have tested this printer on Ubuntu Natty, openSuse (the latest version) and Debian (the latest version) all fail the same way, can't install a proper driver. I have searched the brother site trying to find a contact to express the problem. I just have not found said contact yet. After I post this message I will go back and try again. Here is the interesting part, the scanner drivers are up to date as of 2011 but the printer drivers are for 2008 and seem to be completely out of sync with the latest versions of Linux. I hope I can get this resolved. I started this because I want to get the printer I paid for working properly. Maybe even help others. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to brother-lpr-drivers-laser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/769241 Title: package brother-lpr-drivers-laser 2.0.1-3-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/brprintconfiglpr2', which is also in package brdcp7040lpr:i386 2.0.2-1 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
