Hi AugustQ, AugustQ writes:
> My system: Ubuntu 18.04 > My scanner: Brother DCP 7010 (printer + scanner) > > I followed the advice given here: > https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Scanner/Brother/ Based on which I do an educated guess that you've installed Brother's brscan2 driver, a closed source driver that only Brother can help you with. > But the scanner does not work. The symptoms are: > > - /sane-find-scanner/ reports this: found USB scanner (vendor=0x04f9, > product=0x0182) at libusb:001:009 > > - /sudo scanimage -L/ reports: scanimage: symbol lookup error: > scanimage: undefined symbol: md5_buffer > > - /simple-scan/ says: > - ready to scan: Brother DCP 7010 > - scanning failed: could not connect to scanner > > Do you have any tips for me to make this device work again? > It did work without any problems in older versions of Ubuntu. I've got two: - contact Brother to fix their driver so it works again - switch back to an older Ubuntu version where their current driver works Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
