no such folder! went to /usr/local and what I can find are 4 libsane libraries, not sure where else to poke!! Thanks for the ideas! Dee On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:44 AM, kelly <kelly.black at penguinpackets.com> wrote: > Did you jiggle the cable :-) > > http://bishont.com/index.php?entry=entry131106-162219 > > (Excerpt from the blog): > If you're trying to install a Brother MFC scanner in Linux, and are having > issues getting xsane to recognize your scanner, try running > /usr/local/Brother/sane/setupSaneScan2 -i at the command line. This makes > sure that the driver/scanner is being recognized by sane > > Not sure if you tried that or not, but thought I would offer it up. > > Kelly > > Tue May 26 2015 09:34:49 AM CDT from "o1bigtenor" <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> Subject: > [tclug-list] Scanner setup > Greetings > > I'm hoping that someone out there has achieved success and can point me to > some pointers! > > I bought a Brother MFC-J6510DW largely because it can scan 11 x 17 inch > documents (I have too many like that that I would like to get into > electronic format!!). > > I can see the machine as a printer but cannot get the machine to scan a > page. I have installed XSane 1.0.24 backend and XSane1.0.14 frontend. Tried > running the ethernet cable through the router (a la network usage) and > can't get anything useful to occu. I have also tried running the ethernet > cable directly into my main machine (Debian testing) with also no joy. Have > also contacted Brother support and although their website and the stickers > on the machine laud their online chat and telephone support for linux its > email support (if they can be bothered! (they are taking a very long time > to respond!!)). > > Any suggestions? > > TIA > > Dee > > > (, 0 bytes) [View| Download <http://mimepart_download/0/>] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150526/f9b7b472/attachment.html>