Thanks for the reply. I was able to get my scanner to work by following a different route.
1. Uninstalled and re-installed sane and sane-utils (not sure this step was necessary) 2. Downloaded and installed the drivers from the official Brother website (in order to use their brsaneconfig4 util) 3. Used brsaneconfig4 to configure the network scanner: sudo brsaneconfig4 -a name=BrotherScanner model=MFC-L8850CDW ip=<address> Just listing the steps in case someone else has the same problem. sane.service still shows inactive (dead), but apparently, as it was mentioned earlier, it gets activated on demand. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1577137 Title: saned.service masked and cannot be unmasked To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1577137/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
