[sane-devel] Brother: does not scan

Steven Santos steven at simplycircus.com
Thu May 7 02:12:18 BST 2020


Hey, I wrote that page!

Did you try using the updated version via the ppa listed?

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 8:26 PM Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de> wrote:

>
> Am 06.05.20 um 12:11 schrieb AugustQ:
> > Hi Ulf,
> >
> >
> > did you mean this thread:
> >
> https://www.mail-archive.com/sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net/msg01073.html
>
>
> Yes!
>
> > In one of your postings you mentioned this site:
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/sane_Troubleshooting#Brother
> >
> >
> > Following this advice I did:
> >
> >   2001  ls -l /usr/lib64/libbr*
> >   2002  ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> >   2003  sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/59-udev-local.rules
> >   2004  cat /etc/udev/rules.d/59-udev-local.rules
> >   2005  sudo ln -sfr /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother*
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane
> >   2006  sudo service udev restart
> >   2007  simple-scan
> >
> > simple-scan starts and detects my Brother DCP-7010. Starting the
> > scan-process a paer appears on the screens with circles moving around
> > but then the message appears: could not connect to scanner.
> >
> >
> > No solution, sorry.
> Sorry from my side too.
>
> It worked for me as described in the thread with a fresh install of Ubuntu
> 18.04. I too installed ubuntu-unity-desktop and worked from that surface.
>
> -Ulf
>
>
>
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