[ubuntu-uk] Loss of scanner .....

[Barry Drake]

Slightly weird behaviour.  I haven't used my scanner - Brother DCP 135C
combined printer scanner - for a few weeks.  Yesterday, both my netbook
and my PC refused to find it.  I had to re-install both parts of the
required proprietary driver (from Brother) to get it to work again.
This was certainly due to one of at least three updates that I carried
out during that time.  Only a slight inconvenience, but as the scans
were urgent, I had to resort to Windows to do them, and that really
rankled!!!

Any suggestions for avoiding this on the next round?
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Sent from my Dell Netbook using Ubuntu - the window-free environment
that gives me real fresh air.