[sane-devel] Please add Brother scanners

[James Deibele]

Hello, René .

Thanks for the suggestion.   I've done that.

It's disappointing that this isn't handled automatically.  Having users
editing system files is scary to me.

Thanks again.

James Deibele
jdeibele at gmail.com
+1 (503) 987-0632


On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:11 AM, René Kjellerup
<rk.katana.steel at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> Not every Brother device is a Scanner thus that workaround, as I
> understand, will never be added to
> the official SANE distribution tree, however the same "fix" could work
> for Ubuntu 10.04 too.
>
> kind regards
> René
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:49 PM, James Deibele <jdeibele at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm running Ubuntu Alpha 10.04
> >
> >
> welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/instruction_scn1c.html#u9.10
> > Ubuntu 9.10
> > 1. Open "/lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules" file.
> > 2.Add the following two lines to the end of the device list. (Before the
> > line "# The following rule will disable ..."):
> >
> >
> >
> > The lines to be added---------------------------
> >
> > # Brother scanners
> > ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
> >
> >
> > 3. Restart the OS.
> >
> > James Deibele
> > jdeibele at gmail.com
> > +1 (503) 987-0632
> >
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