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On Friday 03 April 2009, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/4/3 Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx>: > > While brother have deb packages for running their printers, scanners etc > > they do not have linux packages for upgrading the firmware of the > > printer.They only have packages for Windows and Mac. Their actual > > response was "You will not be able to update the firmware using Linux" > > How annoying. I tend to have a Windows XP virtual machine kicking > around for these tasks. I have updated my tomtom, phone and drobo like > this. If you don't mind running XP in a Virtual Machine then I'd > recommend the version from http://virtualbox.org which has usb support > (assuming your printer is USB). Should be possible to "connect" the > printer to the guest operating system and perform updates from inside > that. > > Hope that helps. > > Cheers, > Al. If you use VirtualBox make sure it is not 2.0 which does not have support for USB. 2.1 does and is excellent. George -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html