Discussion thread can be found here:
http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1492
It seems that Brother has aimed most of their new drivers at ubuntu, they are listed as debian/ubuntu, but the actual install is for ubuntu (and we all know ubuntu is not debian). If you follow the directions at the Brother website, it won't work for Debian as written, the instructions below have been customized for Debian testing (wheezy at the time this howto was written).
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Download the drivers from here:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html
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Printer - install printer driver:
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dpkg -i --force-all (lpr-drivername)
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dpkg -i --force-all (cupswrapper-drivername)
**note: you'll have to use "force-all" if you are installing a 32bit driver on a 64bit system, if your not, then don't use it.
Check to see if it's installed:
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dpkg -l | grep Brother
my output:
More: show
**For Network Connection:
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nano /etc/printcap
replace ":lp" line with the following 2 lines
:rm=(ip address of your printer)\
:rp=lp\
set up the driver in CUPS
http://localhost:631/
- remember to login as "root"
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Scanner - install scanner driver:
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dpkg -i --force-all (scanner-drivername)
**note: you'll have to use "force-all" if you are installing a 32bit driver on a 64bit system, if your not, then don't use it.
**For Network Connection (this is for Brother's brsane2 drivers - yours may be brsane or brsane3):
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brsaneconfig2 -a name=(name your device) model=(model name) ip=xx.xx.xx.xx
RTFM (man sane) -
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sane-find-scanner -q
my output:
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04f9, product=0x01da) at libusb:001:005
**Note: above is for my scanner, yours will be different.
If installing on a 64bit system:
copy the following files from /usr/lib64/ to /usr/lib/.
libbrcolm2.so
libbrcolm2.so.1.0.1
libbrscandec2.so.1
libbrcolm2.so.1
libbrscandec2.so
libbrscandec2.so.1.0.0
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mkdir /usr/lib/sane
Copy the following files from /usr/lib64/sane/ to /usr/lib/sane/.
libsane-brother2.so
libsane-brother2.so.1
libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7
add user to group "scanner"
Make a new udev rule to give normal users (not root) access to the scanner:
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nano /etc/udev/rules.d/10-scanner.rules
put this in it:
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ATTR{idVendor}=="0x04f9"
ATTR{idProduct}=="0x01da"
GROUP:="scanner", Mode:="660"
EDITED 01/07/2012 - seems that for some reason the Mode:="660" gives a udev error and a regular user is unable to scan. I removed [, Mode:="660"] and all works again as it should. I'm now running sid, the original howto was written when I was running testing, not sure if that makes a difference..?
**Note: the above is for my scanner, the rule will have to be customized to your paticular unit.
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That should do it.
