The following steps are needed to use a brother scanner via network on Ubuntu 9.10:
- Go to the Brother driver page and download the right .deb file (32/64bit).
- Install the .deb file. If you just click it, gdebi will do that for you.
- Install gscan2pdf, a great GTK+ tool for scanning and exporting the scanned pages to various formats.
- Configure the scanner to be on the network. Depending on the installed printer model, the used tool will be called brsaneconfig, brscaneconfig2 or brscaneconfig3. For the MFC-7820N the command is:
brsaneconfig2 -a name="Lars MFC" model="MFC-7820N" ip=192.168.1.3- The IP address has to be numerical, no hostname is allowed, DNS is not used.
- The model is checked as well. If brsaneconfig complains, you better look it up on the Brother page.
- Of course you are allowed to name your scanner whatever name you like.
