[sane-devel] Scanner only partially detected

[Michael Ionescu]

Yes, I seriosly thought it would be multi architecture. I didn't realize there is even a closed source part which Brother does not currently make available for arm. Guess I'm out of luck.

Thanks.
Mike


Am 25. April 2015 13:53:56 MESZ, schrieb "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com>:
>dpkg -i --force-architecture  brscan2-0.2.5-1.i386.deb
>
>seriously? you cannot run compiled i386 programs on an arm cpu.
>
>allan
>
>On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Michael Ionescu <mhi at ionescu.de>
>wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have two scanners connected to a raspi running debian. The Fujitsu
>> Scansnap works great, but I can't seem to get the Brother MFC-7420 to
>work.
>>
>> I followed
>> https://wiki.debianforum.de/Brother_Scanner
>> and in particular the following steps:
>> root at rpisrv3:~# dpkg -i --force-architecture 
>brscan2-0.2.5-1.i386.deb
>> root at rpisrv3:~# cat > /etc/sane.d/brother2.conf
>> usb 0x04f9 0x0180
>> ^d
>> root at rpisrv3:~# cat >> /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules
>> # Brother scannersATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
>> ^d
>> root at rpisrv3:~# cat >> /lib/udev/rules.d/55-libsane.rules
>> # Brother scannersATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0180",
>> MODE="0660", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
>> ^d
>> root at rpisrv3:~# dpkg -i  brother-udev-rule-type1-1.0.0-1.all.deb
>> root at rpisrv3:~# /etc/init.d/udev restart
>> root at rpisrv3:/usr/local/Brother/sane# ./setupSaneScan2 -i
>>
>> but I only have the following to show for it:
>>
>> root at rpisrv3:~# lsusb
>> [...]
>> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp.Bus 001
>> Device 013: ID 04f9:0180 Brother Industries, Ltd MFC-7420
>> Bus 001 Device 014: ID 04c5:132b Fujitsu, Ltd
>> root at rpisrv3:~# sane-find-scanner
>> [...]
>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04c5 [Fujitsu], product=0x132b [ScanSnap
>> iX500]) at libusb:001:014
>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04f9, product=0x0180) at libusb:001:013
>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x0424, product=0xec00) at libusb:001:003
>>   # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
>> supported by
>>   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
>> [...]
>> root at rpisrv3:~# scanimage -L
>> device `fujitsu:ScanSnap iX500:66687' is a FUJITSU ScanSnap iX500
>scanner
>> root at rpisrv3:~# uname -a
>> Linux rpisrv3 3.18.7+ #755 PREEMPT Thu Feb 12 17:14:31 GMT 2015
>armv6l
>> GNU/Linux
>>
>> So the device is there, lssub recognizes Vendor and Model correctly.
>> sane-find-scanner also shows the device, but without Vendor and
>Model.
>> scanimage does not show the device.
>>
>> I have consulted
>> http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-usb.5.html
>> and others, but am still stumped and don't know where to go from here
>to
>> effectively troubleshoot.
>>
>> How do I find out whether the external backend I installed can
>actually
>> be found and used by SANE? How does SANE identify scanners and put
>names
>> to them?
>>
>> Some pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>>
>>
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