I recently upgraded Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy).
Scanning via my MFC-420CN had been working in Ubuntu and Linux Mint installs up though Olivia and Oneric. However once I upgraded from these, scanning broke. I installed a fresh copy of saucy to verify that it wasn't just something to do with the upgrade.
Brother's website has a notice that all brscan1 models no longer support usb scanning as of Ubuntu 11.10, but it doesn't seem to apply for brscan2 and brscan3 models. Moreover I found several other posts that seem to indicate at least brscan4 models are currently working. However I have been unable to verify scanners using brscan2 (or other divers other than brscan4) and ubuntu 13.10 (actually 12.10 and greater) are currently functioning.
For cross-referencing / to help others with the problem the complete list of brscan2 scanners is as follows:
DCP-110C DCP-115C DCP-117C DCP-120C DCP-130C DCP-135C DCP-150C DCP-153C DCP-155C DCP-310CN DCP-315CN DCP-330C DCP-340CW DCP-350C DCP-353C DCP-357C DCP-540CN DCP-560CN DCP-7010 DCP-7020 DCP-7025 DCP-750CW DCP-770CW DCP-8060 DCP-8065DN MFC-210C MFC-215C MFC-230C MFC-235C MFC-240C MFC-260C MFC-3240C MFC-3340CN MFC-3360C MFC-410CN MFC-420CN MFC-425CN MFC-440CN MFC-465CN MFC-5440CN MFC-5460CN MFC-5840CN MFC-5860CN MFC-620CN MFC-640CW MFC-660CN MFC-665CW MFC-680CN MFC-685CW MFC-7220 MFC-7225N MFC-7420 MFC-7820N MFC-820CW MFC-845CW MFC-8460N MFC-8660DN MFC-8670DN MFC-885CW MFC-8860DN MFC-8870DW MFC-9420CN
Similar previously asked questions / problems (but for brscan3 driver hardware):
- After upgrading to 12.04 the scanner from Brother Printer MFC-290C does not work
- xsane exits with "Invalid argument" while scanning with Brother DCP-J725DW, what does it mean?
So far I've tried:
Installing sane-utils
irections at brother's website regarding the brscan2 install, including using the dpkg -f flag
editing /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules to include
code:
# Brother scanners
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
- copying files form lib to lib64:
code:
cd /usr/lib
ln -s ../lib64/libbrscandec2.so.1.0.0 .
ln -s ../lib64/libbrcolm2.so.1.0.1 .
ln -s ../lib64/libbrcolm2.so .
ln -s ../lib64/libbrscandec2.so.1 .
ln -s ../lib64/libbrscandec2.so .
ln -s ../lib64/libbrcolm2.so.1
cd sane
ln -s ../../lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7 .
ln -s ../../lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1 .
ln -s ../../lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so .
- installing ia32-libs and repeating the sane-utils install
- removing the 64 bit brscan2 driver and replacing it with the 32 bit one, but results of scanimage with the 32 bit driver set-up for usb or network mode were less than promising:
code:
# scanimage -L
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
- of the 32 bit windows drivers with WINE eumlating Win2000 or XP -- it almost completes in 2000.
Debugging 64 bit drivers:
With brscan2 installed I can open up simple-scan and find the scanner; moreover scanimage output indicates that everything is okay:
# scanimage -L
device `brother2:bus5;dev2' is a Brother DCP-350C USB scanner
But scanning (even as a root user) still doesn't work.
> sudo scanimage >image.pnm
scanimage: open of device brother2:bus2;dev4 failed: Invalid argument
xsane produces a similar error:
Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument
sane-find-scanner produces a pipe error shown here: http://pastebin.com/tTNMyD1m but that seems to related to the fact that brother is providing the driver, not sane.
I'm pretty stuck at this point, any help would be appreciated.
brother-lpr-drivers-mfc9420cn
andbrother-cups-wrapper-mfc9420cn