[SOLVED] Brother MFC-5440CN No Scan

[saptech]

I did get the printer part to work, which I need the most. I didn't try getting the scanner to work at the time of installing Mga but now when I installed the drivers from Brother's site, the scanner is not being detected.

The scanner part did work under Mandriva 2010.2.

Running 'scanimage -L' is not showing the scanner. I'm not home at the moment so can't paste any messages.

Could there be some scan files or something missing from Mga side? For the printer, I did have to install a2ps in order for the printer to print.

Thnx.

[David_Batson]

In my case: "For the scanner I had to add a section to /etc/udev/rules.d/libsane... as per the instructions on Brother's website."

[saptech]

I did add that also. It seems as if the scanner part is not being picked up by the OS and/or xsane or kscanlite. I'll keep chipping away at it, hopefully will figure it out.

I also have LMDE installed but haven't setup the scanner part, so Friday I'll reboot and see if it works under it.

Thnx.

[doktor5000]

For the scanner part you only need to install brscan from Brother, which makes the scanner work.
Check http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bs ... d_scn.html
You need brscan and the scan-key-tool, only install both packages, change the udev rule
to be able to scan as user, and you should be ready to scan.
For the udev rule, check http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bs ... html#m2010

[saptech]

I would like to apologize, I had originally downloaded the wrong scan files from Brother's site. I got the right ones installed and now the scanner is working.

Thanks to all for your help.