[SOLVED] Brother MFC-7840W Network Scanner not Recognized in XSane
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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.
Last edited by Kaiser Soze; 06-21-2011 at 11:41 PM.
Reason: included Slackware version and hardware; solved
...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?
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.
My setup is another as your's since my scanner is connected via USB to a Linux-server. But you may check your clientconfiguration
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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.
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