Okay, one by one. When it comes to computer stuff, I really am a complete newbie. Whatever happened with the old 2700 wifi printer was just handled by the distro. On Solus, it just happened… and maybe they used some sort of local best option CUPS wireless driver… really don’t know. On Manjaro was a bit harder, it wasn’t as automatic but it did eventually set up and work with a bit of playing around… but, I will say that whatever I did, I didn’t understand what I was doing… but it did get itself going anyway.
And yes, Ubuntu was the first time I’d actually had to try installing a printer by using the Brother website because it just wouldn’t work of and by itself as the other distros had. I honestly can’t guarantee that the 2710 drivers are exactly the same as the 2700 drivers even though they have the same notated .gz file number of the same size and developed at the same date. I had expected that Ubuntu would’ve worked as easily as the others had in all honesty. I was a bit surprised at how difficult it all turned out to be. I had seen the CUPS interface once before, on Manjaro I think, but I only looked at it, groaned internally and left. I can’t say for sure that there wasn’t some ‘localhost’ connection, but I honestly don’t think there was.
The printer does have an LCD screen but it is always in FAX sleep mode. It only lights up if I go back through my Win 7 machine and print through the Control Centre in Win 7. It does light up if I turn the printer off and then on again, but in Ubuntu, it always seems to be in sleep mode. It has woken up a couple of times, but not every time, we’ve tried scan mode though. Couldn’t see the LCD but I could hear the machine doing something. I do get messages in Ubuntu though, on the top panel. It tells me if i have a print pending or something. There was one up there this morning but I cancelled it. And, i do think you were right. Based on the time on this message it was from when I was playing around in Ubuntu and not in Solus.
I’m going to assume that the commands you’ve given me here for terminal need to be done one by one lol. I’ll have a go and include anything useful from the reporting in terminal. Okay nothing happened out of the ordinary in terminal. And both printers are still showing in the GUI. Should I restart the system just in case that is necessary?
cheers
M.