I upgraded from Ubuntu 17.04 to Ubuntu 17.10 and my scanner (Brother DCP150C) doesn't work anymore.
I installed it again with no problems, but still the message that I get is that the drivers are not installed. I can assure you that driver are installed by running the command dpkg -l | grep Brother.
In previous editions of Ubuntu, I had to go, later, to /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules and add something to this file. Now, I tried to do the same, but I cannot find the 40-libsane.rules there.
Can anybody please give a a hint on this?
14 Answers
I installed libsane1 and sane-utils fom artful-proposal. Then I recognized that "sudo scanimage -L" worked, but "scanimage -L" without sudo did not work. So I created /etc/udev/rules.d/55-libsane.rules with the content:
SYSFS{idVendor}=="04b8", MODE="0666", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
Where "04b8" is the USB id of the scanner manufacturer epson. If you have a brother scanner, you have to replace this id with the one scanimage prints out.
1This solved my problem. . Read the section on Brother scanners. Once I entered the network configuration it worked.
I used the brscan4 tool on a 64 bit system. The correct driver in my case was brscan4-0.4.4-4.amd64. The page from which I downloaded was:
Hope it helps
1Complete step-by-step:
In summary, manually force-install brscan4 and then run brsaneconfig4 to register scanners. libusb-1.0-0 must also be installed, which it is by default in Ubuntu 17.10
sudo dpkg -i --force-all brscan4*.deb
sudo brsaneconfig4 -a name=friendlyname model=model ip=static_ip_of_scanner(Older models need brscan or brscan2/3 instead of brscan4)
I recommend using a static IP instead of relying on auto-detect, which still seems flakey.
The problem is that the brscan4 .deb has a dependency on "libusb" but there is no such package in Ubuntu 17.10. However there is a "libusb-1.0-0" which seems to work. The name change means that package brscan4 won't install normally, and Brother's "Driver Install Tool" sees the error and doesn't configure a scanner.
1I had a similar problem with brother printer/scanner MFC-J625DW.
Could not get the scanner to work until I followed the instructions on this faq. Second item, "I cannot find the brother machine". Apparently, some files are copied into the wrong folder. My system is lubuntu 17.10 32-bit and the driver is brscan4. So also for brscan4 you need this fix. (I have also been editing the 'rules' file , but in the end reverted everything as it did not solve anything.)
According to the faq the fix is :
Check if the following directory exist.
For 64bit Users:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane
For 32bit Users:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sane
Type the following command if the above directory exists.
For 64bit Users:
Command : sudo cp /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane
For 32bit Users:
Command : sudo cp /usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother* /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sane
To clarify I will list all actions I did to get my MFC-J625DW to work (reboot between some steps may be useful):
- download, unzip and run script for your device from support.brother.com (this installed all necessary packages for my device) Follow all instructions on that site.
- add myusername to the
group lp, owning the scan device
sudo adduser <myusername> lp - if you need to find out the name of this group, switch on the device, do
lsusb, note the busnr and devicenr of the brother, and executels -l /dev/bus/usb/busnr/devicenr(3 digits per nr) - did the filecopying fix described above
- to enable all features of brscan-skey, I need gimp, sane and xsane
sudo apt install gimpsudo apt install sane sane-utils libsane-extras xsane
