(In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1)

From	JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	(In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1)
Date	2014-10-03 00:46 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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Having a bit of trouble correctly configuring scanning for
Brother MFC-J6920DW connected wirelessly to a slackware 14.1 box.
In particular, scanimage segfaults, though scanimage -L detects the
device. I've done everything as correctly as I could figure out from
  http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:brother_printer_installation
and from the instructions at
  http://support.brother.com/g/b/
which are displayed while downloading the printer/scanner/fax stuff.
  (By the way, those brother.com instructions display while downloading,
   so for anybody who wants them, I cut-and-pasted them all at
     http://www.forkosh.com/mfcinstallnotes.txt
   which are specifically for the MFC-J6920DW, though lots of those
   mfc printers are pretty similar.)
Cups immediately added the printer, and printing works fine.
And the scanner works "locally" when I plug in a (fat95-formatted)
usb stick and walk it over to the pc after scanning images onto it,
so I assume the hardware's okay.
   And the sane stuff looks okay as far as I can tell, e.g.,
brsaneconfig4 ran correctly, /etc/sane.d/dll.conf was correctly modified,
etc. But scanimage segfaults. The scanner actually begins to scan,
just barely, and then scanimage segfaults and the scanner resets itself.
And a file containing 0 bytes is placed in ~/brscan/ .
I messed around, but nothing had any effect on that behavior.
Any suggestions how to proceed? Thanks,
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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(In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-03 00:46 +0000
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-10-02 22:17 -0400
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-03 11:41 +0100
    Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-03 11:41 +0000
      Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-04 06:28 +0000
        Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-04 09:39 +0100
          Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-04 12:46 +0000
            Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-10-05 03:08 +0000
              Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-05 03:36 +0000
                Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-10-05 03:43 +0000
                Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-05 08:48 +0000
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2014-10-03 16:26 +0000
    Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2014-10-04 04:06 +0000

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