Brother Printer (Resolved)

[GELvdH]

I have 4 systems, 2 desktops and 2 laptops. I print primarily from my DT1, my DT2 is setup as a WiFi system for networking and printing, my printer is on the second floor and the DT2 is on the first. I seldom print from it. I used to be able to print from DT2 without any problem but as of late I can not print, I don't know when it stopped printing since I use it so seldom. One of my laptops is 3 ft away from my WiFi router next to DT2 and it works fine. Reloaded the Brother Drivers from their web site, no joy. When I try to install a new printer it does no recognize any network printer, I know my WiFi network is operational because I am on the Internet to you from DT2. Any ideas?

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gunter@Desktop2:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
  Kernel: 6.5.0-15-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
    Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
    Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A78L-M LX PLUS v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <superuser required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1303
    date: 03/19/2013
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K360
    serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
    status: Discharging
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: AMD Athlon II X4 640 bits: 64 type: MCP
    smt: <unsupported> arch: K10 rev: 0 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 2 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1035 high: 1731 min/max: 800/3000 boost: disabled
    cores: 1: 804 2: 1731 3: 804 4: 804 bogomips: 24110
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD RS780L [Radeon 3000] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: radeon v: kernel
    ports: active: VGA-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:05.0 chip-ID: 1002:9616
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Realtek Web Camera type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 2-2:2 chip-ID: 0bda:2132 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: ati,radeon
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: radeon display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1360x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 360x203mm (14.2x8.0")
    s-diag: 413mm (16.3")
  Monitor-1: VGA-0 mapped: VGA-1 model: LG (GoldStar) TV serial: <filter>
    res: 1360x768 hz: 60 dpi: 22 size: 1600x900mm (63.0x35.4")
    diag: 1836mm (72.3") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7 128 bits)
    v: 4.5 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: ASUSTeK M5A78L LE driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Realtek Web Camera type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 2-2:2 chip-ID: 0bda:2132 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.5.0-15-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASUSTeK P8P67 and other motherboards driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e800 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: D-Link 802.11ac NIC type: USB driver: rtl88x2bu bus-ID: 3-4:3
    chip-ID: 2001:331e class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
  IF: wlxc8787d95a68c state: up mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: nordlynx state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.27 TiB used: 322.96 GiB (13.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRZ-00Z5HB0
    size: 1.82 TiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
    rev: 0A80 scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB
    speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 456.88 GiB used: 52.9 GiB (11.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb3
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 512 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sdb2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: 38.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2647 case-1: 0
  Power: 12v: 12.11 5v: N/A 3.3v: 3.28 vbat: N/A
Repos:
  Packages: 2885 apt: 2865 flatpak: 13 snap: 7
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/libreoffice-ppa-jammy.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/libreoffice-ppa-jammy.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu jammy main
    2: deb-src [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/libreoffice-ppa-jammy.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu jammy main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nordvpn.list
    1: deb https://repo.nordvpn.com//deb/nordvpn/debian stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq-jammy.sources
    1: deb [arch=amd64 i386] https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy main
Info:
  Processes: 265 Uptime: 2h 51m wakeups: 16 Memory: 7.5 GiB
  used: 4.31 GiB (57.5%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.13
gunter@Desktop2:~$ 

[coffee412]

Print off a network report from the control panel of the printer. Look and note the IP address of the printer. What IP does the printer have?

Next download the driver install tool for your printer. Run the install tool and when it asks about how to connect to the printer choose "Supply an IP address". Fill in the IP address and finish install. Now test it and report back.

Also, List your internal IP of the computer you cannot print from and compare it to that of the printer. If your wireless is on a different subnet it may have issues detecting the printer.

[scrunchous]

In my case, having NordVPN enabled prevents my printer from being detected. When I diconnect NordVPN and disable the killswitch, immediately Linux Mint detects my printer.

[KodiakCanoe]

In my case, having NordVPN enabled prevents my printer from being detected. When I diconnect NordVPN and disable the killswitch, immediately Linux Mint detects my printer.

I use Nord and my networked printer works OK while the VPN is connected or disconnected. You may want to try enabling lan discovery, for example

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nordvpn set lan-discovery enabled

[GELvdH]

Thanks for all the replys, KodiakCanoe your amswer solved my problem. Thanks again.