[sane-devel] Experience with brother backend?
m. allan noah
anoah@pfeiffer.edu
Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:27:20 -0400 (EDT)
an objdump on the .so, plus some comments in the faq make me think it uses
libusb.
i have not used the code, though. i have a brother printer, but no mfc.
i have a bigger question, though. is their packaging of gpl'd and lgpl'd
and proprietary code together ok?
allan
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone already tested the brother backend? Link:
> http://solutions.brother.com/Library/sol/printer/linux/sane_drivers.html
>
> It seems to be based on an old SANE version without libusb support so
> it may be difficult to use on 2.6 :-/
>
> It claims to supporte these models:
> DCP Models:
> DCP-1000 DCP-1400 DCP-8020 DCP-8025D
> FAX Models:
> FAX1815C FAX1820C FAX1920CN FAX-2850 FAX-2900
> FAX-3800 FAX-4100 FAX-4750e FAX-5750e
> MFC Models:
> MFC3220C MFC3320CN MFC3420C MFC3820CN MFC-4800
> MFC-6800 MFC-8220 MFC-8420 MFC-8500 MFC-8820D
> MFC-9030 MFC-9070 MFC-9160 MFC-9180 MFC-9660
> MFC-9700 MFC-9760 MFC-9800 MFC-9860 MFC-9880
>
> Any experiences with that backend?
>
> I'd like to add these scanners to our lists for external backends but
> first I want to know if the driver works at all.
>
> Bye,
> Henning
>
>
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