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ADS-1700W via WIFI works perfectly fine.

@baudneo you might have missed the postinstall message, which doesn't print when reinstalling the package (fully uninstall and then install). The postinstall message shows how to use brsaneconfig5. tldr use the absolute path and as root

@MrWhiskers thanks for the report. I see that Brother also directs folks to download brscan5.

@DocileNewbie thanks for the report. I've edited my comment to remove that model. I see that Brother directs folks to download brscan4 for that model on their website.

Generally, looking again at how I detect supported models, it seems inaccurate and includes commented-out lines in Brother's INI files. I also see that Brother includes a udev rule file in the source RPM. Therefore, I will switch to using their udev rule file instead of grepping for models and making my own. The way Brother does it is by matching on the idVendor of 04f9, so hopefully this will be more accurate.

After installing brscan5 I am unable to use the brsaneconfig5 command. Am I missing something here?

(1/1) reinstalling brscan5                                                                         [##############################################################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Reloading device manager configuration...
(2/2) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
    ~  brsaneconfig5                                                                                                       ✔  15s   0.75   31.1G   08:29:19 PM   ⇣3.68 MiB/s ⇡41.2 KiB/s 10.0.1.9  
zsh: command not found: brsaneconfig5

However if I use ->

sudo /opt/brother/scanner/brscan5/brsaneconfig5

things work. Do I just link the executable to a PATH location?

For DS-640 you have to add THIS udev rule to /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/40-brscan5.rules

ATTR{idProduct}=="0468", MODE="0664", GROUP="lp", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

i.e. 0468 and not 046a like the other commenter posted.

Afterwards run

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger

and it should work without rebooting in an app like simple-scan

Brother MFC-L2470DW is scanning across the network. Installed package. Reboot PC. Open Skanlite and the scanner shows up.

I confirm MFC-J3930DW works perfectly with brscan5. Thank you very much!

Thanks for the package. Got my DS-640 working by adding the following udev rule:

ATTR{idProduct}=="046a", MODE="0664", GROUP="lp", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

For the following device as shown by lsusb:

Bus 005 Device 007: ID 04f9:0468 Brother Industries, Ltd DS-640

My MFC-L2750DW was not fully supported by brscan5 (crashes, empty pages in lineart mode with resolution >200dpi. brscan4 works perfectly. So maybe delete it from the list?

Brother published a new update last week to version 1.2.9-0.

Checksums:

• md5sums_x86_64=('975f7927b0cc198c4dedfe9c39777db6')
• md5sums_i686=('8d4040c1f0215c109ee7b85620a074e3')

sorry about that. I replaced the URL-based license with the license that's included in the source RPM to simplify the installation. It seems that URL might not be reliable. Published a fix in 1.2.8_0-2.