Unfortunately- your scanner is not supported by sane-backends, but rather by brother's proprietary driver. The udev rule is really their responsibility, and their suggested rule is a security hole. Thanks for taking the time to report this, and sorry to disappoint.
allan On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Joel Avery <joel.avery at yahoo.ca> wrote: > Just following instructions in /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules in Ubuntu > 10.10 to get my scanner to work. > > ??? # If the scanner is supported by sane-backends, please mail the entry to > ??? # the sane-devel mailing list (sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org). > > It sounds like you'll update this file if I can provide the content. > > As per Brother's guidance at > http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/instruction_scn1c.html, > > I had to add > > ??? ??? # Brother scanners > ?????? ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes" > > to /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules to be able to scan documents as a > normal user. > > Thanks. > > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
