smi402
November 3rd, 2011, 01:57 AM
I have a Brother MFC-8460N printer/scanner/copier/fax on my network which worked flawlessly with Ubuntu 11.04 and previous releases. However, after recently upgrading to 11.10 with the Final Release alternate-amd64 disk the scanner function ceased to work - neither xsane, Gimp nor Simple Scan could find the scanner device. Brother has issued a fix for this problem that applied to the Beta 2 version of 11.10. It is among the FAQs listed here (http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/faq_scn.html).
The problem arises because of paths to the sane libraries the Brother software uses. I have solved this problem in my installed Final Release 64bit 11.10 by setting up symbolic links to the appropriate libraries as in the code below. You firstly need to get the brscan-skey and brscan packages that apply to your scanner from the Brother site (http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/instruction_scn1b.html).
My scanner uses the brscan2 package so I then set up the following links (NOTE: Make sure you use the library names that are appropriate to the version of brscan that you installed):
frank@server:~$ cd /usr/lib
frank@server:/usr/lib$
frank@server:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrcolm2.so libbrcolm2.so
frank@server:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrcolm2.so.1 libbrcolm2.so.1
frank@server:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrcolm2.so.1.0.1 libbrcolm2.so.1.0.1
frank@server:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrscandec2.so libbrscandec2.so
frank@server:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrscandec2.so.1 libbrscandec2.so.1
frank@server:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrscandec2.so.1.0.0 libbrscandec2.so.1.0.0
frank@server:/usr/lib$ cd sane
frank@server:/usr/lib/sane$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so libsane-brother2.so
frank@server:/usr/lib/sane$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1 libsane-brother2.so.1
frank@server:/usr/lib/sane$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7 libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7
Reboot, turn the scanner on, open a terminal and run xsane. It should then find the scanner device and enable scanning :D:D I trust this may help some of those trying to run Brother scanners using 11.10.
Frank
The problem arises because of paths to the sane libraries the Brother software uses. I have solved this problem in my installed Final Release 64bit 11.10 by setting up symbolic links to the appropriate libraries as in the code below. You firstly need to get the brscan-skey and brscan packages that apply to your scanner from the Brother site (http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/instruction_scn1b.html).
My scanner uses the brscan2 package so I then set up the following links (NOTE: Make sure you use the library names that are appropriate to the version of brscan that you installed):
frank@server:~$ cd /usr/lib
frank@server:/usr/lib$
frank@server:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrcolm2.so libbrcolm2.so
frank@server:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrcolm2.so.1 libbrcolm2.so.1
frank@server:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrcolm2.so.1.0.1 libbrcolm2.so.1.0.1
frank@server:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrscandec2.so libbrscandec2.so
frank@server:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrscandec2.so.1 libbrscandec2.so.1
frank@server:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrscandec2.so.1.0.0 libbrscandec2.so.1.0.0
frank@server:/usr/lib$ cd sane
frank@server:/usr/lib/sane$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so libsane-brother2.so
frank@server:/usr/lib/sane$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1 libsane-brother2.so.1
frank@server:/usr/lib/sane$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7 libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7
Reboot, turn the scanner on, open a terminal and run xsane. It should then find the scanner device and enable scanning :D:D I trust this may help some of those trying to run Brother scanners using 11.10.
Frank