Brother MFC-J880DW Network Scanner not recognized by sane

Technical Issues and Assistance Hardware
#1

I'm trying to scan something from over the network. Unfortunately, xsane doesn't recognize my scanner, and so does scanimage -L.

I've went on to try and install the brother drivers from the AUR onto my system, so I installed the packages brscan4 and brother-mfc-j880dw separately. Unfortunately, I can't note any change whatsoever.

I've also tried to enter the IP of the brother device in my local network into the /etc/sane.d/net.conf file. (i.e., I just put the IPv4 there on a new line). Unfortunately, again, it was to no avail.

Any ideas on what else I could try to troubleshoot this problem?

#2

Before you start messing with Brother drivers try installing the package "simple-scan" and see if that can detect your printer and scan to it. I suggest rebooting both devices first after install of simple-scan and give the printer about 30 seconds to make sure it is network connected first before running simple-scan.

#3

After installing the brscan4 using the AUR you need to issue the following command
"sudo brsaneconfig4 -a name=scanner model=MFC-j880DW ip=192.168.1.25"
change the 192.168.1.25 to the address of your printer.
I like xsane for scanning and you may need to install xsane.

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#4

What @bobc said. :+1:

#5

This is one of the reasons why I do not use the AUR for installing brother drivers.
Their brother driver tool does a much better job of downloading and installing the correct drivers, they even create uninstall scripts in the process (best to create a sub directory to hold and run these from first). Nice thing is it will ask you for the IP address during install. You just need either dpkg, or rpm-org, from the AUR before running the tool. There's tutorials on how to do this all over the forums.

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