On 14 February 2011 16:41, Barry Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > I decided to have a go with the AMD 64-bit version of Maverick. I put > it on a second hard drive so the 32-bit version is untouched. All was > fine until I wanted to use my Brother DCP 135C printer/scanner. I > looked at their Linux driver page, and the only drivers available are > the ones I already have. I get the error message that they are for the > wrong architecture as they are i386 packages. > > I don't suppose there is a workaround for this? The drivers are not > open-source as far as I know. Maybe I just have to stick with the 32 > bit Ubuntu? > > If there is a deb package you should be able to force the install. My experience with 64-bit came up with a few problems like that and now that the PAE kernels are available, it's taken away the need for it for machines with 4Gb of RAM or more.
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