Public bug reported: There are no drivers included in Feisty Herd 4 for Brother's MFC-5440CN Printer/Scanner/Copier/Fax even though Brother itself provides drivers for this machine (and others) as .deb-Packages and licensed under the GPL on their wedsite.
http://solutions.brother.com/Library/sol/printer/linux/rpmfiles/lpr_debian/mfc5440cnlpr-1.0.2-1.i386.deb http://solutions.brother.com/Library/sol/printer/linux/rpmfiles/cups_wrapper/cupswrappermfc5440cn_1.0.0-1_i386.deb They work fine under Edgy using this tutorial (only German, sorry) http://micha.monsteradmin.de/archives/104-Brother-MFC-5440CN-unter- Ubuntu.html Also the MFC-5440CN is not detected as a Scanner out-of-the-box. Same story here. Drivers are GPL and available through the Brother site: http://solutions.brother.com/Library/sol/printer/linux/rpmfiles/sane_debian/brscan2-0.2.1-0.i386.deb It works fine under Edgy using this tutorial: http://micha.monsteradmin.de/archives/107-Brother-MFC-5440CN-und-Scannen-ueber-das-Netz-mit-Ubuntu.html Please include these drivers into feisty (and maybe even more of Brother drivers for other machines since there are there waiting to get included (GPL). If any further information is needed let me know. Thank you for making Ubuntu rock! ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- No drivers for Brother MFC-5440CN printer even though they are GPL https://launchpad.net/bugs/85539 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
