[sane-devel] Brother MFC-420CN via USB connection

[Jason H. Fuller]

Probably more helpful is the results of sane-find-scanner:
http://pastebin.com/tTNMyD1m

Regards,
Jason


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Jason H. Fuller <jason.fuller at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sort of:
> xsane -s
> results in a graphical notification error:
> Failed to open device 'brother2,bus2,dev1': Invalid argument.'
>
>
> - JF
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <
> gjermundprivat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Do you receive the same error if you attempt to scan from command line?
>>
>> } G {
>>
>> On 11. des. 2013, at 14:04, Jason H. Fuller <jason.fuller at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > I've spent about 20 hrs now trying to get my USB / Network scanner
>> working under Ubuntu Saucy or Linux Miint 16 - Petra.
>> >
>> > I have an older machine that is dying (only boots when it wants to)
>> that was running Linux Mint 14 - Nadia that scans just fine over USB, and I
>> swear I had it working on my girlfriends laptop after I had upgraded her to
>> Linux Mint 15 - Olivia.
>> >
>> > Oddly after adding the suggested line to 40-libsane.rules xsane and
>> simple scan open with out error, and the scanner is available for selection
>> in simple scan.  However when I actually try to scan I get a "Failed to
>> start scanner: Invalid argument" error from xsane.  I know this scanner is
>> picky and won't scan at the default 100 dpi, so I tried changing that, but
>> it did not work.
>> >
>> > Any help would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Jason
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