[Desktop-packages] [Bug 701856] Re: Brother's printer/scanner drivers awkward to find and install

2020-04-08 Thread Tommy Trussell
UPDATE: On a freshly installed Bionic (minimal install) system I also had to install libusb-0.1-4 This procedure worked for me to get a Brother DCP-7020 scanner working in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic. For this procedure the user is "bob" 1) Install the latest brscan2 package (I have brscan2-0.2.5-1.am

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 701856] Re: Brother's printer/scanner drivers awkward to find and install

2019-04-24 Thread Tommy Trussell
Here's a procedure that worked for me in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic. For this procedure the user is "bob" 1) Install the latest brscan2 package (I have brscan2-0.2.5-1.amd64.deb which I downloaded in 2014) 2) Manually link the drivers brscan2 installed into /usr/lib/x86_64 -linux-gnu/sane/ and /usr/lib

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 701856] Re: Brother's printer/scanner drivers awkward to find and install

2019-04-01 Thread Colan Schwartz
I gave up on Brother after having to fiddle with the config on every OS upgrade, and I recommend that everyone else do the same. I tried opening a support ticket the last time, and they said Linux support is only available in the forums, which tells me they don't actively support it any more (if t

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 701856] Re: Brother's printer/scanner drivers awkward to find and install

2019-03-28 Thread Tommy Trussell
I just upgraded to from Xenial 16.04 to Bionic 18.04 and unfortunately the scanner broke again. Unfortunately the changes affect two places -- udev seems to have made big changes to the scanner section, so I wrote a completely new udev file, and the sane-dll backend doesn't look in the same direct

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 701856] Re: Brother's printer/scanner drivers awkward to find and install

2016-08-05 Thread Tommy Trussell
I just upgraded to Xenial and the situation is the same. However I wanted to note that the script in comment #27 didn't work for me. Here's a procedure to get the brscan2 package work in Ubuntu Trusty or Xenial: 1) Install the latest brscan2 package (I have brscan2-0.2.5-1.amd64.deb ) 2) Copy th

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 701856] Re: Brother's printer/scanner drivers awkward to find and install

2015-09-17 Thread Roland S.
As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS I have tested this on 15.10 and the bug is still there. I think this is a feature request rather than a bug. ** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Opinion -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packa