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  1. #1
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    Lightbulb Scanning with Brother Multifunction Centre DCP-135C

    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:
    1. 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.
    2. Install the scanner driver. Just double-click the driver. From a geek's perspective, I prefer:
      Code:
      sudo dpkg -i brscan2-0.2.4-4.i386.deb
      This allows me to view the install, and to review it as necessary.
    3. Determine the USB identifer for device.
      Code:
      lsusb
      and locate for the pair of 4-digit alphanumericals XXXX:YYYY for the device. Mine was 04f9:01ce.
    4. Add new rules under udev.
      Code:
      gksudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules
      At the end of the document, append these 2 lines of text:
      Code:
      # Brother DCP-135C
      SYSFS{idVendor}=="04f9", SYSFS{idProduct}=="01ce", MODE="0666", GROUP="scanner"
      Note 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.
    5. Restart udev.
      Code:
      sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart
      Or, restart ubuntu if you must.
    6. 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:
    # do not edit this file, it will be overwritten on update
    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.

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    Re: Scanning with Brother Multifunction Centre DCP-135C

    If lsusb command does not show your brother, try

    Code:
    sudo lsusb
    Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom but sharing data is the first step toward community

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    Re: Scanning with Brother Multifunction Centre DCP-135C

    I can confirm that this solution works on Ubuntu 10.10 also.
    Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom but sharing data is the first step toward community

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    Re: Scanning with Brother Multifunction Centre DCP-135C

    I had just got this working in 10.10 .... thanks.

    But now for some stupid reason I decided to upgrade to 11.04 and now cannot get my dcp-135c scanning.... it is printing ok.

    All the steps above seem ok .... and I also tried all the stuff in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompileSaneFromSource

    But my scanning programmes will not recognise the scanner.

    Permissions - in users and groups there is a group for sane but not a group called scanner ... not sure if this is a problem.

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