Brother Mfc-295Cn Scanner
I Have Managed to Add My Mfc-295Cn Printer to My Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop. However, I Need Some Help Adding the Scanner. from the Brother Website I Am Instructed...
I have managed to add my MFC-295CN printer to my Ubuntu 11.04 desktop. However, I need some help adding the scanner. from the Brother website I am instructed to install the driver step 4-3) Command (for dpkg)
# dpkg -i --force-all (scanner-drivername)
and the example given is:
dpkg -i brscan-skey-0.2.1-1.i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package brscan-skey. (Reading database ... 89058 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking brscan-skey (from brscan-skey-0.2.1-1.i386.deb) ... Setting up brscan-skey (0.2.1-1) ...
With terminal I can add PPA's and remove programs but this is very confusing to me. Do I write the '#'? do I need to type 'sudo'? FYI I need to download the brscan3 driver. Please help me with this, once I get this I won't need Windows 7 really anymore, being able to scan from Ubuntu would be a huge win.
Thank you,
Dustin
2 Answers
Ok here is how I got my MFC-295CN scanner working. I downloaded the drivers, prerequisites, brscan3 ect and installed using software centre. I also installed Xsane. Scanning did not work with Xsane and simple scan. So I edited the rules.
- Open
/lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rulesfile. Add the following two lines to the end of the device list. (Before the line "# The following rule will disable ..."):
# Brother scanners ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"Restart the OS.
But to edit it, you have to use terminal.
like this: gksudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules
This is how to get your MFC-295CN scanner to work.
Ok I have downloaded your file and will show you how I do it:
After accepting this page:
The download starts and when it finishes at the bottom I click the little arrow next to the file and choose 'open'. Since it is a DEB my system takes over by issuing Ubuntu software Center to install it:
Hit install and it should work on your system.
No need to mess around with command line (that's oldskool ;) ).
I did not actually install it since I do not need this driver
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