After upgrading to 12.04 the scanner from Brother Printer MFC-290C does not work
- by Lorenzo
I upgraded Ubuntu to 12.04 from 11.10. The printer works, but the scanner doesn't now. In 11.10 I had to install a special driver from Brother. The printer's model is Brother MFC-290C. The computer is a Toshiba Satellite. How can I get the scanner working?
Update:
I have a 64-bit installation on the Toshiba Satellite. Thank you for your instructions, Chad--24216. I followed each step: 1 through 5. I also updated the Brother Linux scanner S-KEY tool.
The output of dpkg -l | grep Brother is:
ii brscan-skey 0.2.3-0 Brother Linux scanner S-KEY tool
ii brscan3 0.2.11-5
Brother Scanner Driver
ii mfc290ccupswrapper:i386 1.1.2-2 Brother CUPS Inkjet Printer Definitions
ii mfc290clpr:i386 1.1.2-2 Brother lpr Inkjet Printer Definitions
ii printer-driver-ptouch 1.3-3ubuntu0.1 printer driver Brother P-touch label printers
Still the scanner does not work. Here is the message from Xsane:
Failed to open device brother3:bus6;dev1: Invalid argument.
Here is the message from Simple Scan:
Failed to scan. Unable to connect to scanner.
And Scan Utility still doesn't display the scanner line.
