[SOLVED] Brother MFC-7840W Network Scanner not Recognized in XSane

Kaiser Soze · 06-17-2011, 02:45 PM

I have a networked MFC-7840W that I am able to print to, but unable to scan to from my Slackware-64 13.37 machine.

I downloaded both brscan3 64-bit rpm files from http://welcome.solutions.brother.com...n.html#brscan3 and used rpm2tgz on them before running installpkg on each.

Code:

mutant@minix_slack:~$ brsaneconfig3 -q | grep 7840
 85 "MFC-7840N"
 92 "MFC-7840W"
  0 Brother             "MFC-7840W"         I:10.25.99.2

Code:

mutant@minix_slack:~$ brscan-skey -l
ERROR: No such file or directory   [/usr/local/Brother/sane/brscan-skey-0.2.1-3.cfg]

Code:

mutant@minix_slack:~$ ls /usr/local/Brother/sane/
Brsane3.ini    brsanenetdevice3.cfg  brscan-skey-0.2.1-3.sh  script
brsaneconfig3  brscan-skey-0.2.1-3   models3		     setupSaneScan3

and when I try to run XSane, I get "no devices available" spit back at me. The printer/scanner are up and running as I can ping and print to it from the machine in question. I can also scan from other machine on the network.

Any thoughts and/or help and greatly appreciated.

allend · 06-17-2011, 09:10 PM

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...and used rpm2tgz on them before running installpkg on each.

The Brother installer scripts are written for C shell, and may not run successfully in the Slackware default bash shell.
Do you have an entry for 'brother3' in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf?

T3slider · 06-17-2011, 09:12 PM

I don't know much about brscan3 but with brscan2 there are post-install scripts that must be run in order to be able to detect the scanner. By using rpm2tgz you are skipping these scripts, so you probably have to run a couple of commands first to get it working. I used the debian packages (and repackaged them using `ar -x` and tar), but if you want to continue with the rpm packages you'd have to grab the scripts. You should be able to use `rpm --query --package --scripts filename.rpm` (but you'll have to do some manual parsing of that output since it isn't split up). Otherwise the debian package contains scripts in control.tar.gz.

[edit]Or, apparently, rpm2tgz -s[/edit]

BCarey · 06-17-2011, 09:52 PM

You can't use rpm2tgz with these files, you must use alien, as described at http://welcome.solutions.brother.com...faq_prn.html#1 . Don't forget the -c and -t switches.

Brian

Kaiser Soze · 06-18-2011, 01:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

You can't use rpm2tgz with these files, you must use alien, as described at http://welcome.solutions.brother.com...faq_prn.html#1 . Don't forget the -c and -t switches.

Brian

I have compiled alien and now run

Code:

root@minix_slack:/home/mutant/Downloads# alien -t -c brscan3-0.2.11-4.x86_64.rpm

which resulted in

Code:

root@minix_slack:/home/mutant/Downloads# ls
brscan-skey-0.2.1.tgz     brscan3-0.2.11.tgz     brscan-skey-0.2.1-3.x86_64.rpm

and then

Code:

root@minix_slack:/home/mutant/Downloads# alien -t -c brscan-skey-0.2.1-3.x86_64.rpm

which resulted in

Code:

root@minix_slack:/home/mutant/Downloads# ls
brscan-skey-0.2.1.tgz	        brscan3-0.2.11.tgz
brscan-skey-0.2.1-3.x86_64.rpm	brscan3-0.2.11-4.x86_64.rpm

However, once I ran

Code:

root@minix_slack:/home/mutant/Downloads# tar -xzf brscan3-0.2.11.tgz

I got rid of the rpms and I now have

Code:

root@minix_slack:/home/mutant/Downloads# ls -l
total 124
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48845 Jun 17 23:18 brscan-skey-0.2.1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66986 Jun 17 23:18 brscan3-0.2.11.tgz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 17 23:18 install
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root  4096 Jun 17 23:18 usr

What do I do with the two directories?

markush · 06-18-2011, 03:13 AM

Hello,

I'v written a tutorial about using a Scanner over the network, look here http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...r_over_network

My setup is another as your's since my scanner is connected via USB to a Linux-server. But you may check your clientconfiguration

Quote:

Configuration for the client on the client you'll have to edit the /etc/saned.d/net.conf file and insert the IP-adress of the server, please note that I tried it with the hostname of the server which failed.
Furthermore there is a file dll.conf in the /etc/saned directory, be sure that there is a line with the single word net in this file.

Markus

BCarey · 06-18-2011, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kaiser Soze

I have compiled alien and now run
However, once I ran

Code:

root@minix_slack:/home/mutant/Downloads# tar -xzf brscan3-0.2.11.tgz

I got rid of the rpms and I now have

Code:

root@minix_slack:/home/mutant/Downloads# ls -l
total 124
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48845 Jun 17 23:18 brscan-skey-0.2.1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66986 Jun 17 23:18 brscan3-0.2.11.tgz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 17 23:18 install
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root  4096 Jun 17 23:18 usr

What do I do with the two directories?

After you convert the rpms to tgzs you don't untar them you just install them with "installpkg".

Brian

arubin · 06-19-2011, 09:18 AM

This is what I do with my Brother MFC. It is networked with static IP.

I copy the rpms to the alien folder then

Quote:

cd alien
./alien.pl -ct brscan-skey-0.2.1-3.x86_64.rpm
./alien.pl -ct brscan2-0.2.5-1.x86_64.rpm
installpkg *.tgz
brsaneconfig2 -a name=SCANNER model=MFC-7820N ip=192.168.1.52

trillobyte · 06-19-2011, 09:52 PM

You should activate the server first by typing the command brscan-skey. Once you do this the sane software should work.

Kaiser Soze · 06-21-2011, 11:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arubin

This is what I do with my Brother MFC. It is networked with static IP.

I copy the rpms to the alien folder then

worked like a champ...thanks.