- Does ‘scanimage -L’ return anything useful?
- Are you a member of the ‘lp’ group
- Can you try installing simple-scan?
I have a Brother 7360N (Networked) MFC. I has been working sins 12.1 to today’s 13.1. I have used a kind of tricky method:
-Install latest “mfc7360nlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.rpm” (that works for me) from Brother solutions.
-Install latest “cupswrapperMFC7360N-2.0.4-2.i386.rpm” (that works for me) from Brother solutions.
-install “brscan4-0.4.1-5.x86_64.rpm” from Brother solutions.
-Into to Yast2 and configure the printer to use connection wizard LPD/Ip-adress (192.168.0.Xn).
-Open a terminal and type:
$ brsaneconfig4 -a name=SCANNER model=MFC-7360N ip=192.168.0.Xn
Test and Confirm network scanner entry
$ brsaneconfig4 -q | grep SCANNER
" 0 SCANNER “MFC-7360N” I:192.168.0.Xn!
Works as late as today. Please let me know again if you fail and I will extend my working method. It should be easier to have a locally attached printer.
Regards!
That’s applicable for network-attached scanners. AFAIU, this user is connecting via USB, so brsaneconfig4 is not required.
I agree. The main point was that it is possible to get Brother HW to work in Linux. They (Brorther) are making a large thing on they home page… Linux.
Regards
I’ve never had a problem configuring and using Brother hardware either, but clearly something is not working for the OP as per the previous posts. (The error message in particular is concerning).
I think this one worth a shot. (lp group)
See this again though it is for old versions of openSUSE
Brother Solutions Center : Brother Driver for Linux Distributions
see the lines in the 11.2 version of openSUSE
Yes, and Wurger needs to make sure that the appropriate udev rule is present (which assigns the correct group) as explained previously. The other recommendation I have is to delete the user’s ~/.sane directory before trying xsane again.