[sf-lug] Brother MFC Printer drivers installed

[Jon Lam]

Including all. sorry, my bad.

As of the utility scanimage, I was confusing it with simplescan.

Thank you.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:52 AM, Jon Lam <jonplam at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:13 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>
>> Quoting Jon Lam (jonplam at gmail.com):
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am not sure how to scan a document from one of these devices to my
>> Fedora
>> > laptop.  Does anyone have any recommendation?
>> >
>> > scanimage -L returns device `brother4:net1;dev0' is a Brother
>> MFC-L2700DW
>> > MFC-L2700DW
>> >
>> > How do I use this utility?
>>
>> Jon, I notice you didn't actually state
>>
>> o  What make/model of multifunction printer/scanner you have.
>>    One infers from the 'scanimage -L' output that you have a
>>    Brother model MFC-L2700DW.  Is this correct?
>>
> Yes
>
>>
>> o  How you are connecting to it -- USB, wired LAN, or wireless LAN.
>>    If you are using a network connection, you probably need to
>>    configure the multifunction Brother device to use a
>>    static IP address that you assign to it, and that is on the
>>    same IP network as your Linux laptop.  In any event, please
>>    detail what connection method you are trying to use.
>>
>> I am not sure if I can assign a static IP address to the MFC Brother
> device.  but, I was able to print a test page to it.
>
>>
>> _If_ this is a Brother MFC-L2700DW, then, according to
>> http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadhowto.aspx?c=us&lang=
>> en&prod=mfcl2700dw_us_eu_as&os=127&dlid=dlf006648_000&flang=4&type3=564,
>> the scanner portion of your multifunction device requires the
>> 'brscan4' SANE driver (driver for the SANE scanning software
>> framework).  This should be provided by Fedora's package of the same
>> name.
>>
>>
> The driver installation program from Brother took care of the installation
> and configuration using that driver.
>
> [root at milo sane.d]# brsaneconfig4 -q | grep -i 'mfc-l2700dw'
> 221 "MFC-L2700DW"
>   0 MFC-L2700DW         "MFC-L2700DW"       I:10.0.1.133
>
>>
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SANE#For_Brother_hardware has some
>> practical suggestions, especially for scanners you wish to reach over
>> the network:
>>
> Thanks for this forward, I will need to work through that wiki to get
> further understanding of how things work under the hood.
>
>>
>>   For network scanners, Brother provides a different configuration tool
>>   for each brscan version (eg. brsaneconfig2 for brscan2 compatible
>>   devices):
>>
>>   # brsaneconfig2 -a name=<ScannerName> model=<ScannerModel>
>> ip=<ScannerIP>
>>
>>   Example:
>>
>>   # brsaneconfig2 -a name=SCANNER_DCP770CW model=DCP-770CW
>> ip=192.168.0.110
>>
>>   Network Scanning
>>
>>   In case of network scanning, e.g. by WiFi, Sane may still be unable to
>>   find the scanner. If so, you need to specify the IP address of the
>>   scanner in the /etc/sane.d/net.conf file.
>>
>>   Now use scanimage --check-devices to check whether sane is able to find
>>   your scanner. If not, further check that Sane expects this device
>>   through the network
>>
>
> [root at milo sane.d]# scanimage --check-devices
> scanimage: unrecognized option '--check-devices'
>
>
>>   (see http://neithere.net/2013/02/18/archlinux_brother_7860.html).
>>   Check that /etc/sane.d/dll.conf contains brotherX, where the X
>>   stands for the brscan version from above. If nothing was found,
>>   add brotherX to the end of the file.
>>
>>
>> brother4 exists at the end of  dll.conf
>
>> Above is from the Arch Linux wiki, which is a very generally useful wiki
>> for users of any Linux distribution, although of course some of its
>> contents will end up being specific to Arch Linux rather than your
>> own Linux distribution.
>>
>> (See the wiki page, as it has cleaner and clearer formatting.)
>>
>>
>> Just as an aside, I may proceed with testing all these components with
> the installation of scanimage.  I am trusting it is the "best" utility to
> use on Fedora.  Besides using the "Software" GUI in Fedora to install this
> program, I am more of a CLI junkie.  How would I do that?  yum or DNF, or
> what not?
> By the way, I am a little confused as fedora software gui says I do not
> have the scanimage program installed.  And then I can run this command at
> the cli.  could someone shine a light on what is occuring?
>
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> Jon
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