Re: Problem with Brother scanner

2020-04-22 Thread Robin Lee
On Wed, 2020-04-22 at 21:17 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > > I don't know how the OP installed the Brother drivers, but there are > two ways: one is detailed with lots of tweaks you need to make, and > the other is relatively trivial. > > You can either: > 1. download the individual driver files and

Re: Problem with Brother scanner

2020-04-22 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 05:43:59PM -, Doug Herr wrote: > > Hi list > > > > I recently got a Brother scanner/printer for my Fedora 31 desktop. I've > > installed all the drivers from Brother and the printing part works > > fine, but not scanning. > > > > When I launch simple-scan, [snip] > >

Re: Problem with Brother scanner

2020-04-22 Thread Doug Herr
> Hi list > > I recently got a Brother scanner/printer for my Fedora 31 desktop. I've > installed all the drivers from Brother and the printing part works > fine, but not scanning. > > When I launch simple-scan, [snip] I have not tried that sanning app, but I found that Xsane works well with my

Re: Problem with Brother scanner

2020-04-22 Thread Robin Lee
On Wed, 2020-04-22 at 09:49 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > I would comment out the SYSFS lines and see if that fixes > anything. I > would also remove the executable bit {chmod -x filename). > > It seems they have put both SYSFS (used in RHEL5, so really old) and > ATTRS (new name RHEL6(say f12) an

Re: Problem with Brother scanner

2020-04-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-04-22 at 08:37 -0600, Jerry James wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 8:30 AM Robin Lee wrote: > > I recently got a Brother scanner/printer for my Fedora 31 desktop. I've > > installed all the drivers from Brother and the printing part works > > fine, but not scanning. > > I've got one

Re: Problem with Brother scanner

2020-04-22 Thread Roger Heflin
I would comment out the SYSFS lines and see if that fixes anything. I would also remove the executable bit {chmod -x filename). It seems they have put both SYSFS (used in RHEL5, so really old) and ATTRS (new name RHEL6(say f12) and newer), but both point to the same place, so as long as the bad o

Re: Problem with Brother scanner

2020-04-22 Thread Jerry James
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 8:30 AM Robin Lee wrote: > I recently got a Brother scanner/printer for my Fedora 31 desktop. I've > installed all the drivers from Brother and the printing part works > fine, but not scanning. I've got one of those, too. After installing all of the Brother RPMs, I had to