I require the scanning capabilities of my Brother DCP-135C on Jaunty (ubuntu 9.04). Hence after some probing, these are the steps to get things going:
- Download the scanner driver. The driver may be obtained from Brother at http://solutions.brother.com/linux/e...nload_scn.html. My DCP-135C requires use of the brscan2 driver. Since I was using ubuntu 9.04, I downloaded the 32-bit debian file.
- Install the scanner driver. Just double-click the driver. From a geek's perspective, I prefer:
This allows me to view the install, and to review it as necessary.Code:sudo dpkg -i brscan2-0.2.4-4.i386.deb- Determine the USB identifer for device.
and locate for the pair of 4-digit alphanumericals XXXX:YYYY for the device. Mine was 04f9:01ce.Code:lsusb- Add new rules under udev.
At the end of the document, append these 2 lines of text:Code:gksudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rulesNote that you will have to rename the description in the first line to describe your machine. idVendor refers to the 4-digit alphanumerals on the left of the colon; idProduct refers to the 4-digit on the right. 0666 indicates superuser mode. The read/write mode of 0664 does NOT work.Code:# Brother DCP-135C SYSFS{idVendor}=="04f9", SYSFS{idProduct}=="01ce", MODE="0666", GROUP="scanner"- Restart udev.
Or, restart ubuntu if you must.Code:sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart- Smile, & start scanning. Launch the XSane Image scanning program and scan, scan, scan...
Some unanswered queries. In the udev rules document, there was this comment at the start:I get the hunch that if my scanner breaks after an update, I will have append the 2 lines of codes to udev rules again.# do not edit this file, it will be overwritten on update
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