HOWTO: Install Brother MFC210C

[marcw]

Connection

Printer Type: Network Printer CUPS Printer
URL: http://hostname: 631/

P.S. Since I am a "newbie" how do you copy pictures to post?

Go back and read message #46 in this thread and look at the picture. See if that method works for you like it did me...

[bigken]

[stalefries]

This is for all of you out there who want a networked scanner!

I have confirmed this to work both with Brother's confirmation program, and by making a preview scan of a random item I had lying around by the printer.

BobSongs: Feel free to add this to your original post.
The first part is shamelessly ripped and modified from Lunixfanboy's part of the tutorial. I'm sorry. The second part is shamelessly ripped and modified from the Brother tutorial. I'm sorry, once again.

NEW: Success! These directions work, unmodified, with Dapper. Sure, this is a little late, with Edgy coming in a couple of weeks, but better late than never! Most likely, unless something drastically changes with Edgy, these directions should work then too.

Step 1: Download from Brother

Go over there to obtain the 'sane scanner' backend.

Save the file, for the sake of consistency, to the mfc210c folder on your desktop. If the terminal is closed, please open it again:

Applications → Accessories → Terminal

Code:

sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/mfc210c/brscan2-0.0.2-1.i386.deb

Note: The above command will depend on which sane backend you downloaded, "brscan" or "brscan2".

The following is the part from Brother's HOWTO.

This step is only necessary if you have previously uninstalled Sane:
Install The latest versions of Sane and Xsane

apt-get install sane xsane

To use your machine as a network scanner, you need to set the friendly name, model name and IP address or node name in the driver using the commands below. Please make sure which scanner driver "brscan" or "brscan2" you are using. If you are using "brscan" driver, please use "brsaneconfig". If you are using "brscan2" driver, please use "brsaneconfig2".

P.S.: I have no idea what they mean by "node name", I ended up using the IP address that I used in setting up the printer for printing.

Using IP address:

brsaneconfig -a name=FRIENDLY-NAME model=MODEL-NAME ip=xx.xx.xx.xx

or

brsaneconfig2 -a name=FRIENDLY-NAME model=MODEL-NAME ip=xx.xx.xx.xx

Using node name:

brsaneconfig -a name=FRIENDLY-NAME model=MODEL-NAME nodename=BRN_xxxxx

or

brsaneconfig2 -a name=FRIENDLY-NAME model=MODEL-NAME nodename=BRN_xxxxx

i.e) When your model name is "MFC-7820N", nodename is "BRN_XXXXX" and friendly name is "SCANNER1", set the command as below:

brsaneconfig -a name=SCANNER1 model=MFC-7820N nodename=BRN_XXXXX

or

brsaneconfig2 -a name=SCANNER1 model=MFC-7820N nodename=BRN_XXXXX

You can check the result by running the command:

brsaneconfig -q

or

brsaneconfig2 -q

If the setting is done correctly, you will see the result as below:
0 SCANNER1 "MFC-7820N" N:BRN_XXXXX

Finally, to make sure it REALLY worked, open up Xsane

Applications → System Tools → Xsane image scanning program

Yeah, it's ugly.

Now stick something in your scanner. I ended up using a blue comb that was lying around. Crazy, huh?

Click Acquire Preview in the Preview window (your mileage may vary, just hunt around for an Acquire Preview button.)

If you hear a whirring sound from your scanner, and see a scan starting to materialize on your screen, let out a yelp of joy, for you have a functioning scanner being used via a network connection, in less (and, IMHO, easier) steps than those poor people who are using their Brother scanner via USB!

[LxP]

This is for all of you out there who want a networked scanner!

Works like a charm! Thanks very much for sharing.

And now to figure out how this XSane software works.

[bigken]

great job on the scanner thx once again bobsongs

Works with dapper flight 6 no probs
also suse 10 no probs

[danalog]

To use your machine as a network scanner, you need to set the friendly name, model name and IP address or node name in the driver using the commands below. Please make sure which scanner driver "brscan" or "brscan2" you are using. If you are using "brscan" driver, please use "brsaneconfig". If you are using "brscan2" driver, please use "brsaneconfig2".

P.S.: I have no idea what they mean by "node name", I ended up using the IP address that I used in setting up the printer for printing.

Using IP address:

brsaneconfig -a name=FRIENDLY-NAME model=MODEL-NAME ip=xx.xx.xx.xx

or

brsaneconfig2 -a name=FRIENDLY-NAME model=MODEL-NAME ip=xx.xx.xx.xx

Doing this step I get:

bash: brsaneconfig2: command not found

What now? (wat nou?)

[LxP]

Doing this step I get:

bash: brsaneconfig2: command not found

You didn't properly install the brscan2 package. Please refer again to the appropriate part of the original message.

[danalog]

You didn't properly install the brscan2 package. Please refer again to the appropriate part of the original message.

What I did:

1) got the deb from brother
2) installed the deb (sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/mfc210c/brscan2-0.0.2-1.i386.deb)

danalog@dev:~$ sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/mfc210c/brscan2-0.0.2-1.i386.deb
(Reading database ... 105274 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace brscan2 0.0.2-1 (using .../brscan2-0.0.2-1.i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement brscan2 ...
Setting up brscan2 (0.0.2-1) ...

3) sudo apt-get install sane xsane
4) brsaneconfig2 -a name=Scanner model=MFC210C ip=192.168.1.34

Result:

bash: brsaneconfig2: command not found

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I am on latest Dapper Drake.

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edit:

I tried it with newer version of brscan: brscan2-0.2.0-0.i386.deb

Now I get a bit further but it gives me an error on an invalid model name:

danalog@dev:~$ brsaneconfig2 -a name=MFC210C model=MFC210C ip=192.168.1.34
Invalid model name

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edit:

FIXED

Forgot to add - (dash) in model name: MFC-210C

Scanning works!!

[stalefries]

danalog: Have you ever installed/removed any of these packages before? Can you show us your $PATH?


LxP (and anyone else who cares): Check out the Xsane Documentation.


Also, good to know it helped a bunch of people so soon, and that it went smoothly for (almost) all of you!

[bigken]

What I did:

1) got the deb from brother
2) installed the deb (sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/mfc210c/brscan2-0.0.2-1.i386.deb)

danalog@dev:~$ sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/mfc210c/brscan2-0.0.2-1.i386.deb
(Reading database ... 105274 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace brscan2 0.0.2-1 (using .../brscan2-0.0.2-1.i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement brscan2 ...
Setting up brscan2 (0.0.2-1) ...

3) sudo apt-get install sane xsane
4) brsaneconfig2 -a name=Scanner model=MFC210C ip=192.168.1.34

Result:

bash: brsaneconfig2: command not found

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I am on latest Dapper Drake.

try brsaneconfig2 -a name=Scanner1 model=MFC-210C ip =192.168.1.34