On Sun, 2023-10-15 at 12:28 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 10/15/2023 12:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Use 'sudo avahi-browse -a -t' to check that
> > printer, scanner etc. are all visible. Use
> > DNS-SD (Avahi) versions of drivers.
>
> If you don't need it very often, you're bes
On 10/15/2023 12:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Use 'sudo avahi-browse -a -t' to check that
printer, scanner etc. are all visible. Use
DNS-SD (Avahi) versions of drivers.
If you don't need it very often, you're best off making it into a shell
script so that you don't need to wor
On Sun, 2023-10-15 at 11:02 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> I found I have to wake the scanner up before trying to connect to it
> over the network. I don't know if the scanner responds to the magic
> wakeup packet.
Very occasionally my Brother all-in-one needs to be prodded with an
avahi command.
I've had two Brother printers/scanners, currently a MFC-7820N, and never
had any issues running them under Fedora. Brother Linux support has been
great. I'm using Xsane for the scanner.
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 7:55 AM Tom Horsley wrote:
> In the past I have had near infinite trouble getting scan
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 9:55 AM Tom Horsley wrote:
>
> In the past I have had near infinite trouble getting scanners
> compatible with linux, but I just replaced a dead Epson multi-function
> device that I only ever used as a scanner with a Canoscan LIDE 300
> and was shocked and amazed when it ju
In the past I have had near infinite trouble getting scanners
compatible with linux, but I just replaced a dead Epson multi-function
device that I only ever used as a scanner with a Canoscan LIDE 300
and was shocked and amazed when it just worked out of the box.
P.S. The epson isn't quite as bad a