[sane-devel] Please add Brother scanners

[m. allan noah]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:31 AM, James Deibele <jdeibele at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes- and that is why Brother should provide those rules instead of
asking you to do it.

allan

> 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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