smi402
September 26th, 2011, 02:01 AM
I upgraded my AMD64 system from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 a few months ago. My setup includes a network Brother MFC-8460N printer/scanner/fax at IP 192.168.1.253. Following the upgrade the printer worked fine but I have not been able to use the scanner function. Running either xsane or sudo xsane starts "scanning for devices" but returns "no devices available". Both the printer and scanner functions were working under Ubuntu 10.10.
The brscan2 driver for this printer is installed and appears to be configured correctly:
frank@server:~$ dpkg -l | grep Brother
ii brmfc8460nlpr:i386 2.0.1-1 Brother MFC-8460N LPR driver
ii brscan2 0.2.5-1 Brother Scanner Driver
ii cupswrappermfc8460n:i386 2.0.1-2 Brother MFC8460N CUPS wrapper driver
frank@server:~$ brsaneconfig2 -q
Devices on network
0 SCANNER "MFC-8460N" I:192.168.1.253
1 scanner "MFC-8460N" I:192.168.1.253
I would be grateful for any assistance in getting this scanning function to work again.
The brscan2 driver for this printer is installed and appears to be configured correctly:
frank@server:~$ dpkg -l | grep Brother
ii brmfc8460nlpr:i386 2.0.1-1 Brother MFC-8460N LPR driver
ii brscan2 0.2.5-1 Brother Scanner Driver
ii cupswrappermfc8460n:i386 2.0.1-2 Brother MFC8460N CUPS wrapper driver
frank@server:~$ brsaneconfig2 -q
Devices on network
0 SCANNER "MFC-8460N" I:192.168.1.253
1 scanner "MFC-8460N" I:192.168.1.253
I would be grateful for any assistance in getting this scanning function to work again.