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  brother printer/scanners Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-01-02 01:40 +0100
    Re: brother printer/scanners Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-01-02 02:30 +0100
    Re: brother printer/scanners Igor Cicimov <icicimov@gmail.com> - 2017-01-02 02:30 +0100
      Re: brother printer/scanners Igor Cicimov <icicimov@gmail.com> - 2017-01-05 04:40 +0100
    Re: brother printer/scanners Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-01-02 02:40 +0100
      Re: brother printer/scanners Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-01-02 03:40 +0100
        Re: brother printer/scanners Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-01-02 07:00 +0100
          Re: brother printer/scanners Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-01-02 08:10 +0100
            Re: brother printer/scanners Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-01-02 13:30 +0100
              Re: brother printer/scanners Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-01-02 17:00 +0100
                Re: brother printer/scanners Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-01-03 01:00 +0100
                  Re: brother printer/scanners Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-01-03 04:20 +0100
                    Re: brother printer/scanners Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-01-04 17:30 +0100
                      Re: brother printer/scanners Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-01-04 19:30 +0100
                        Re: brother printer/scanners Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-01-04 20:00 +0100
                          Re: brother printer/scanners Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-01-04 23:00 +0100
                        Re: brother printer/scanners Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-01-04 23:10 +0100
                          Re: brother printer/scanners John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2017-01-05 00:40 +0100
    Re: brother printer/scanners Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-01-02 05:50 +0100
      Re: brother printer/scanners Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-01-03 06:30 +0100
        Re: brother printer/scanners Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-01-03 06:50 +0100
        Re: brother printer/scanners Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-01-03 08:10 +0100
    Re: brother printer/scanners Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-01-03 01:20 +0100
      Re: brother printer/scanners Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-01-03 04:30 +0100

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#176277

Hi, Joel.

Just to clear up a point of confusion (mine) -- when you say you got 
those debs (brscan4, etc.) from the repos, do you mean Debian 
repositories? I don't see anything like that there.

If you're referring to Ubuntu repos, then that's another matter. I can't 
(won't) use those with a Debian install because I have no idea how to 
fix the mess I'd probably create.

;-)

I hope I haven't confused the issue for you with my assumption that we 
were talking about the Debian repos.

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#176278

Woops. Corrections below:

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Joel Rees <joel.rees@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 <ben@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 <ben@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

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#176273

On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 09:38:24 +0900, 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.

Any progress on this? Which device is it?

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#176275

On 01/02/2017 07:16 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 09:38:24 +0900, 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.
>
> Any progress on this? Which device is it?
>
>
I haven't seen any replies to the thread from Joel, though I did receive 
a direct reply from him. I see that he has a gmail addy. Maybe he's 
having an issue with getting gmail to come back to the list???

I haven't seen him indicate the model. If it's like the one I'm playing 
with you have to install a policy and then install the scanner driver, 
and then install the scanner key, and then run the brsaneconfig thingy. 
And the instructions are rubbish. It would probably just work for him if 
he used the 200 kilobyte script. But it is kind of an ugly solution.

On the other hand, I did just install the scanner stuff alone in one 
test, and that worked just fine, once I got the typos figured out. The 
printer portions of the Brother multi-function devices seem 
well-supported in the repositories. I suggest the system-config-printer 
utility since it seems to zero in very quickly on the right drivers for 
similar-named printers. That CUPS installer utility makes me roll that 
mouse wheel until I start feeling cranky.

Come back to us, Joel!

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