Hello list: Just like to report the road to success configuring the Brother MFC-215C under Fedora Core 4, using the brother2 backend drivers from Brother.
$ rpm -qa | grep sane sane-backends-1.0.15-9 sane-backends-devel-1.0.15-9 xsane-gimp-0.98a-2 xsane-0.98a-2 $ sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x04f9, product=0x0193) at libusb:001:004 $ scanimage -L device `brother2:bus2;dev1' is a Brother MFC-215C MFC Scanner $ cat /etc/sane.d/brother2.conf # For libusb support for unknown scanners use the following command # usb <product ID> <device ID> # e.g.: usb 0x04f9 0x0193 $ tail -8 /etc/sane.d/dll.conf # The following backends are not included in the sane-backends distribution # If you want to use them, download them from their webpages and read their # documentation # # HP OfficeJet backend homepage: http://hpoj.sf.net/ # Uncomment the following line if hpoj is installed: #hpoj brother2 I originally had trouble with the drivers on the Brother website (brscan2-0.0.1-0.i386.rpm), as they didn't explicitly support the MFC-215C, only the previous model MFC-210C. After contacting Brother Linux support, they promptly sent me an updated rpm (brscan2-0.0.2-1.i386.rpm) to drive the MFC-215C ... I'm not sure if they've posted it on their website yet. I must say I was very impressed with Brother's response ... maybe it helped suggesting that I intended to inform the Linux community their product played well with Linux. Their website instructions for configuration seem to be for the old scanner kernel module, no longer used in 2.6.*. Anyway, no permission problems (local access managed through pam), and xsane works beautifully ;-) Cheers ~Simon _____________________________________________________________________________________________ (madpenguin iinet net au) GPG:0x40DCC69C http://www.keyserver.net S i m o n C r o s a t o GNU/Linux Fedora Core 4 (2.6.14-1.1653_FC4) i686 athlon on eris 23:33:52 up 5:32, 3 users, load average: 0.27, 0.41, 0.41
