On 2017-08-05, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 20:19:33 -0400, Jape Person wrote:
On 08/04/2017 06:39 PM, Brian wrote:
It's sad, isn't it? There must be enough Linux / Unix folks using brother
printers to make it worth Brother's trouble to provide a utility for this. I
guess most environments have either Windows or Mac available, but mine
didn't until I got the little NUC. $300 so I can do firmware upgrades.
Making lemonade, I'll probably try to play some old games on the little box.
There's always a silver lining.
I wonder whether wine would help (with installing the firmware, I mean).
I was wondering whether a native utility like flashrom could be used for
this. However when I looked at the Brother firmware executable to see
whether the firmware part could be extracted, I found that in fact the
exe file doesn't contain the firmware at all, but rather downloads the
latter from a Brother internet server somewhere in the cloud and then
installs into the printer.