Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: Scanner software for Brother mfc8480dn Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:14:58 -0700 Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: <10807nu$3ch33$1@dont-email.me> <1083tm2$6q9r$1@dont-email.me> <10850u2$f6vk$1@dont-email.me> <1088om3$1alfs$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net FcAqkIeVC1wPeG8gXQ0s6gKHUSzJbzJlZwhr/UQ3gYfUucQD/7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wYs4MGfxNYODPDL5ix6IiOt41eQ= sha256:SHkDdW43XuiHQXoBooapzAB0eRk//ZcXcMmkVrl3mX8= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <1088om3$1alfs$1@dont-email.me> bp@www.zefox.net wrote: > Mike Easter wrote: >> bp@www.zefox.net wrote: >> >> I'm not sure exactly how to interpret that info, but it DOES sound >> like it should be able to detect a network scanner. > > I agree with your assesment, but the software seems not to.... Near > as I can tell simple-scan brings up a window titled Document > Scanner. It reports looking for a scanner but finds nothing, even > while I'm logged into the printer via telnet at the same time. If > it's supposed to auto-detect, it doesn't. There's a preferences > dialog, but nothing related to finding the scanner. > Surely the scanner driver must be some kind of binary blob more than a script full of text. I dl'd the Brother .deb for the scanner driver to look inside it and Bro gives linux instructions for installing it for both USB & network devices. https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadend.aspx? c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc8480dn_us&os=128&dlid=dlf006642_000&flang=4&type3=566 Of course, Brother's idea of a .deb is for Debian/Ubuntu, but this page goes into some details for howto: > How to Install > For Network Users: > > ***Use brsaneconfig (for brscan models), brsaneconfig2 (for brscan2 > models), brsaneconfig3 (for brscan3 models), brsaneconfig4 (for > brscan4 models) or brsaneconfig5 (for brscan5 models) accordingly. > Add network scanner entry Command : brsaneconfig4 -a name=(name your > device) model=(model name) ip=xx.xx.xx.xx > > Confirm network scanner entry Command : brsaneconfig4 -q | grep > (name of your device) > > Open a scanner application and try a test scan. > > Please refer the FAQ pages also for other information. Brother also has a faq/s page for troubleshooting such as linux installation where it talks about the limitations of its packages: https://support.brother.com/g/b/faqend.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc8480dn_us&ftype3=2033&faqid=faq00100713_000 Its table has the distro/s for the rpm and those for the deb and specifically lists such as Puppy and 'other' saying 'none'. Of course, that sort of info isn't necessarily accurate, as I regularly use .deb/s for installing stuff for both Puppy and EasyOS which are based on Deb. -- Mike Easter