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Works for me with Brother DS-635, thanks! I did update the PKGBUILD to install 1.2.12 (not sure if necessary). Simple as changing:

pkgver=1.2.12_0
pkgrel=1
md5sums_x86_64=('f83901b5f8beb172e638dd2e3dee765f')

@razerei and @wounc78,

Thank you for this AUR pkg/driver :D It works as expected with my Brother DS740-D portable scanner -- except for the duplex functionality, which I personally didn't expect to work after doing my pre-buy research. The xsane GUI has an option to select duplex operation, but it doesn't seem to do anything/be wired up 8\

But your driver pkg works perfectly well! Thank you!!! :)

Clemmitt Sigler

Thanks for checking, but i gave up asking them and got a scanner with full support in SANE (Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i). My neighbour is Windows-Admin, so i gave it them.

Thanks @wounc78. Patch published to AUR. The udev rule came from brother; thanks for catching the deprecated SYSFS setting. I've removed it now. The improper file permission was my fault so I've fixed that now as well.

@Baerbeisser you might check with Brother support. Their support site is confusing for DS-740D because they supply the brscan5 driver, but then tell you configure it using brsaneconfig4, so it's not clear to me which should work. If you're using a USB hub, I'd also suggest trying to plug directly into your computer to avoid buggy hubs just in case.

So for my earlier comment here is my suggested fix.

As the SYSFS key is deprecated it can be safely removed from the udev rules and this can be done with a patch with the following content:

--- a/opt/brother/scanner/brscan5/udev-rules/NN-brother-mfp-brscan5-1.0.2-2.rules
+++ b/opt/brother/scanner/brscan5/udev-rules/NN-brother-mfp-brscan5-1.0.2-2.rules
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 LABEL="brother_mfp_udev_1"


-SYSFS{idVendor}=="04f9", GOTO="brother_mfp_udev_2"
 ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", GOTO="brother_mfp_udev_2"
 GOTO="brother_mfp_end"
 LABEL="brother_mfp_udev_2"

The PKGBUILD should be modified to include this new patch and also the permission when installing the udev rule should be set to 644 instead of 755 to avoid issue with it being executable:

# Maintainer: David Bernheisel <david+aur at bernheisel dot com>
# Based on the brscan4 PKGBUILD by Harey

pkgname=brscan5
pkgver=1.2.11_0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='SANE drivers from Brother for compatible models'
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('GPL' 'custom:Brother')
url="http://support.brother.com"
depends=('sane' 'libusb-compat')
optdepends=('gtk2: for running brscan_gnetconfig')
source=(sysfs.patch)
md5sums=('628bb19291913b225608b0f59253c7e2')
md5sums_i686=('dca083bd72991c0d87ec43698721cd65')
md5sums_x86_64=('b4eacf7266b791ef6c8f76238e96378a')
source_x86_64=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf104036/${pkgname}-${pkgver/_/-}.x86_64.rpm")
source_i686=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf104035/${pkgname}-${pkgver/_/-}.i386.rpm")
install="brscan5.install"

prepare() {
    cd "$srcdir"
    patch --strip=1 --input="../sysfs.patch"
}

build() {
  mkdir -p usr/lib/udev/rules.d
  mkdir -p etc/sane.d/dll.d
}

package() {
  cp -r "$srcdir/etc" "$pkgdir"
  cp -r "$srcdir/opt" "$pkgdir"
  cp -r "$srcdir/usr" "$pkgdir"

  install -D -m644 "$srcdir/opt/brother/scanner/brscan5/doc/LICENSE_ENG.txt" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE_ENG.txt"
  install -D -m644 "$srcdir/opt/brother/scanner/brscan5/doc/LICENSE_JPN.txt" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE_JPN.txt"

  echo "brother5" > "$pkgdir/etc/sane.d/dll.d/brother5.conf"
  chmod 644 "$pkgdir/etc/sane.d/dll.d/brother5.conf"

  install -D -m644 "$srcdir/opt/brother/scanner/brscan5/udev-rules/NN-brother-mfp-brscan5-1.0.2-2.rules" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/40-${pkgname}.rules"

  mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sane"
  cd "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sane" || exit 1
  mv "$pkgdir/opt/brother/scanner/brscan5/libsane-brother5.so.1.0.7" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sane"
  ln -sf libsane-brother5.so.1.0.7 libsane-brother5.so.1
  ln -sf libsane-brother5.so.1 libsane-brother5.so

  cd "$pkgdir/usr/lib" || exit 1
  mv "$pkgdir/opt/brother/scanner/brscan5/libLxBsScanCoreApi.so.3.2.0" "$pkgdir/usr/lib"
  ln -sf "libLxBsScanCoreApi.so.3.2.0" "libLxBsScanCoreApi.so.3"
  ln -sf "libLxBsScanCoreApi.so.3" "libLxBsScanCoreApi.so"

  libs=(libLxBsNetDevAccs libLxBsDeviceAccs libLxBsUsbDevAccs)
  for lib in "${libs[@]}"; do
    mv "$pkgdir/opt/brother/scanner/brscan5/${lib}.so.1.0.0" "$pkgdir/usr/lib"
    ln -sf "$lib.so.1.0.0" "$lib.so.1"
    ln -sf "$lib.so.1" "$lib.so"
  done
}

Not sure if this is the correct way to do the PKGBUILD but it works.

i get the same messages as @wounc78 after upgraded brscan5 (1.2.10_0-0 -> 1.2.11_0-1) Scanner works with xsane via Network (USB never testet).

Mine is a Brother DSmobile DS-740D. About two months ago, it didn't got detected by Simple-Scan anymore, but by Xsane.

Since about a month ago, it causes xHCI to crash, if plugged in USB-3. It's not usable in USB-2.

brscan4 works partially, pages get scanned, but the resulting image only has the first half of the page.

Some way to get kernel.log to persist after reboot (non-Systemd), since input doesn't work afterwards? I tried to copy to Home in a loop, but this overwrites with empty after the crash.

I'm getting two messages in my journal after installing this package:

Sep 13 12:04:36 arch systemd-udevd[566]: Configuration file /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/40-brscan5.rules is marked executable. Please remove executable permission bits. Proceeding anyway. Sep 13 12:04:36 arch systemd-udevd[566]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/40-brscan5.rules:17 Invalid key 'SYSFS'

Is this something from Brother causing this or is the package not being installed correctly? It works just fine but these message should still be dealt with if anyone else gets them too?

Just in case: After Upgrade I miss my Network scanner (brother-dcpj152w) every time. so i have to check configured scanners whit: brsaneconfig5 -q and add my device neu if necessary: brsaneconfig5 -a name=FRIENDLY-NAME model=MODEL-NAME ip=xx.xx.xx.xx ..as root ;-)