I just wanted to give some quick feedback... A while ago, I posted a problem with my Brother MFC (scanning mysteriously stopped working) and someone suggested reinstalling the OS. At first that sounded drastic, but upon reconsideration, I realized that it need not be all that disruptive and may solve several nagging issues I've been living with.
Well, yesterday I finally did the reinstall of Ubuntu, then followed the installation instructions for the Brother posted on the Ubuntu forums (which I had followeed earlier), and the scanning (as well as printing) is now working fine. Incidentally, I also got my sound working again, although the solution I eventually found could have been applied without reinstalling. But the reinstall did motivate me to dig deeper to get that fixed as well, since I now knew the problem was not some esoteric glitch.
