[SOLVED] No Scanner Found...Brother MFC-440CN

dbrew4 · 09-01-2016, 10:37 AM

Hey Allen...I hate to be a pain but I'm a little leery of modifying this file. I see where you moved at least one line up. If I provide my email address can you email me and I can respond with the attached file so maybe you can modify it, send it back and I can just replace the original? If not..I understand. Tks

allend · 09-01-2016, 10:46 AM

Quote:

I'm a little leery of modifying this file

Save the original.

Code:

cp /etc/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules /tmp/40-libsane.rules

Then you can easily revert.
This is not a critical file for anything apart from scanner access.

dbrew4 · 09-01-2016, 10:48 AM

Tks...let me work on this

allend · 09-01-2016, 10:53 AM

OK - My sleeping time anyway. Good luck!

dbrew4 · 09-02-2016, 07:16 AM

Modified the file as per the attached. This is how I did it.

dbrew4@dbrew4-Inspiron-546 ~ $ gksu gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules

** (gedit:7516): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-enabled not supported

** (gedit:7516): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported

** (gedit:7516): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-position not supported
dbrew4@dbrew4-Inspiron-546 ~ $ sudo udevadm control restart
Extraneous argument: restart

Still no scanner indentified

allend · 09-02-2016, 07:55 AM

The file you attached is named "40-libsane.txt". As per post#15, are you actually editing the file named "40-libsane.rules"?

dbrew4 · 09-02-2016, 08:18 AM

The file I posted was exactly from "40-libsane.rules". I saved a copy as a .txt file on my desktop in order to post it here.

allend · 09-02-2016, 08:30 AM

When the software looks right, it may be time to try physically disconnecting and reconnecting the hardware or even cycling the power.

dbrew4 · 09-02-2016, 09:17 AM

Disconnected and unplugged printer/scanner, re-booted OS, reconnected and power up printer/scanner...still NG

allend · 09-03-2016, 12:33 AM

As part of the driver install, you should have a file 'brsaneconfig2'.
Perhaps running, with root privileges, 'brsaneconfig2 -d', will offer a clue.
Also, check that your model appears in the list from 'brsaneconfig2 -q'.

dbrew4 · 09-03-2016, 06:59 AM

Here is the results from "brsaneconfig2 -q" root:

[sudo] password for dbrew4:
0 "DCP-9040CN"
1 "MFC-9440CN"
2 "DCP-9045CDN"
3 "MFC-9840CDW"
4 "MFC-9640CW"
5 "DCP-357C"
6 "DCP-353C"
7 "DCP-157C"
8 "DCP-153C"
9 "MFC-265C"
10 "DCP-155C"
11 "MFC-880CDN"
12 "MFC-870CDN"
13 "MFC-650CD"
14 "MFC-480CN"
15 "MFC-885CW"
16 "MFC-685CW"
17 "MFC-680CN"
18 "MFC-465CN"
19 "MFC-260C"
20 "MFC-235C"
21 "MFC-230C"
22 "DCP-770CN"
23 "DCP-770CW"
24 "DCP-560CN"
25 "DCP-350C"
26 "DCP-150C"
27 "DCP-135C"
28 "MFC-9450CDN"
29 "DCP-9042CDN"
30 "MFC-8670DN"
31 "MFC-210C"
32 "MFC-420CN"
33 "MFC-410CN"
34 "MFC-620CN"
35 "MFC-610CLN"
36 "MFC-620CLN"
37 "DCP-110C"
38 "DCP-310CN"
39 "MFC-5440CN"
40 "MFC-5840CN"
41 "MFC-3240C"
42 "MFC-3340CN"
43 "MFC-7420"
44 "MFC-7820N"
45 "DCP-7010"
46 "DCP-7020"
47 "DCP-7025"
48 "MFC-7220"
49 "MFC-7225N"
50 "MFC-9420CN"
51 "DCP-8060"
52 "DCP-8065DN"
53 "MFC-8460N"
54 "MFC-8860DN"
55 "MFC-8870DW"
56 "MFC-8660DN"
57 "DCP-115C"
58 "DCP-116C"
59 "DCP-117C"
60 "DCP-118C"
61 "DCP-120C"
62 "DCP-315CN"
63 "DCP-340CW"
64 "MFC-215C"
65 "MFC-425CN"
66 "MFC-820CW"
67 "MFC-820CN"
68 "MFC-640CW"
69 "MFC-615CL"
70 "MFC-830CLN"
71 "MFC-840CLN"
72 "DCP-130C"
73 "DCP-330C"
74 "DCP-540CN"
75 "MFC-240C"
76 "DCP-750CW"
77 "MFC-440CN"
78 "MFC-660CN"
79 "MFC-665CW"
80 "MFC-845CW"
81 "MFC-460CN"
82 "MFC-630CD"
83 "MFC-850CDN"
84 "MFC-5460CN"
85 "MFC-5860CN"
86 "MFC-3360C"
87 "DCP-750CN"
88 "MFC-860CDN"

Devices on network

#77 is my scanner...I also tried running simple scan from the terminal "sudo simple-scan"...same results

allend · 09-03-2016, 10:17 PM

My googling suggests that some other users of Linux Mint 18 have had success by copying files installed by the Brother installer into the /usr/lib64 directory structure into the /usr/lib directory structure.
e.g. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=225264
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtop...r+dcp#p1188308
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=226115

The details of what needs to be copied are listed here. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...575/comments/3
You just want the brscan2 files:

Quote:

/usr/lib64/libbrscandec2.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7
/usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1
/usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so
/usr/lib64/libbrcolm2.so.1.0.1
/usr/lib64/libbrcolm2.so
/usr/lib64/libbrscandec2.so.1
/usr/lib64/libbrscandec2.so
/usr/lib64/libbrcolm2.so.1

dbrew4 · 09-04-2016, 08:20 AM

Attached are the contents of the 2 folders (/usr/lib64/ and /usr/lib). From what I can see it appears that only 3 files are missing from each folder. All the other files are there. (please verify). Thoughts?

/usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7
/usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1
/usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so

dbrew4 · 09-04-2016, 08:27 AM

Update...the files are under the following /usr/lib64/sane. Where do you suggest I copy those three files...if at all?

allend · 09-04-2016, 09:28 AM

Try copying the directory /usr/lib64/sane to /usr/lib so that /usr/lib/sane is created.