Woops. Corrections below: On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > (Ben saw this, anyway. 8-p > > Sorry. Wandering back and forth between Ubuntu and Debian, I sometimes > forget that debian treats e-mail as e-mail, where Ubuntu does the > convenient thing.) > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> wrote: >> On 02/01/17 13:38, Joel Rees wrote: >>> >>> I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages >>> from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner >>> still isn't being found. >>> Running Wheezy. >>> Would anyone care to tell me what steps they took to get scan >>> functionality on their Brother multifunction printers? > > I'll mention here, for completeness, that I installed the short deb > that set up the udevs this morning, but that didn't help. xsane still > only found my internal camera. (Which, unfortunately, does not seem to > scan. Maybe I'll find a way to configure the camera later on, just for > fun.) > >> Is this a network printer? Did you configure your scanner client settings >> with brsaneconfig[1-4]? For example: >> http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/instruction_scn1b.html?c=nz&lang=en&prod=mfcl2740dw_us_eu_as&redirect=on >> >> From my MFC-L2740DW on unstable amd64, I ran: >> >> brsaneconfig4 -a name="Brother MFC-L2740DW" model=MFC-L2740DW ip=192.168.1.2 >> > > That helped. When running xsane after that, it found the scanner and > showed it to me in a list with the internal camera. But it errored > out, complaining about bad parameters. > > Then I ran > > brsaneconfig4 -q > > to see if it was there, and after that it connects and scans. YAY! > >> The scanner was then correctly detected in xsane. >> >> I am using: >> >> brscan-skey-0.2.4-1.amd64.deb > > I haven't installed this yet, but I may try it just for fun, > especially if I end up with multiple brother devices. ;-) > >> brscan4-0.4.3-0.amd64.deb > > That's what I had from repos.
No, that wasn't from repos. Now that I check, it was from Brother's driver clot. Uhm, deb package. My bad. You know, I'm not sure where it came from. Wait. Here it is: http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html?c=us_ot&lang=en&comple=on&redirect=on Here are some of their famous instructions: http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/instruction_scn1b.html?c=us_ot&lang=en&redirect=on Here's the monster download page: http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/download_scn.html which has the scanner stuff for a whole bunch of models. As someone said, the debian repos don't seem to have any scanner stuff. >> mfcl2740dwcupswrapper-3.2.0-1.i386.deb dcpj952ncupswrapper-whatever (3.0.0.1, i386) >> mfcl2740dwlpr-3.2.0-1.i386.deb dcpj952nlpr-whatever (3.0.0.1, i386) It looks like I got them from Brother, but I'm not sure what page. It may be a Japanese-only page for a Japan-only printer. Oh, this is probably it: http://support.brother.co.jp/j/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=jp&lang=ja&prod=dcpj957n&os=128 And I seem to have picked tthe simple install, which appears to be downlevel but must not be, since I have the 3.0.0.1 drivers. The dates are confusing, too. But the models supported list includes the dcp-j957. As several have commented, it's impossible to be sure what came from where because I installed what was in the repos, then installed the stuff from Brother. > Not sure about those, don't seem to remember seeing what would be the > equivalent for the DCP-J975N, which is my multifunction device. Double woops. DCP-J957N. But the driver deb is named for the 952. > >> >> Kind regards, >> >> -- >> Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> >> Director >> Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> >> New Zealand > > Much appreciation to all who responded, including off-list. -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html
