This could definitely be better handled by the Brother documentation. So, all in all: There is official Linux support for this scanner, but it seems to require a firmware upgrade. Easily scans documents, photos, receipts, business and embossed plastic cards, and more - from business card size up to 8.5' (W) x 32' (L). After doing this the scanner worked without issue also in Linux. I upgraded the firmware using the Windows utility to do so. Reading some Linux source code, and playing with USB quirks in Linux solved nothing.įinally, I gave up and booted into Windows to check if the hardware had a defect. After quite a lot of mucking around playing with capturing USB packets using Wireshark, it seemed the device itself was requesting a reset, and the Linux kernel was resetting it approximately 200ms later. At this stage I was thinking that the Linux support was very crappy. Jan 29 22:52:13 mchro-laptop kernel: usb 2-1.3: reset high-speed USB device number 32 using ehci-pci It turns out things were indeed working, albeit very slowly. I checked with the SANE command line tools, e.g. Things were hanging and generally very unresponsive.
I installed the official Linux drivers, and tried to scan a document using a GUI scanning application.
It turns out it did, but only after a few quirks. I recently bought a Brother DS-620 document scanner that supposedly had support for Linux.
UPDATE: The drivers were temporarily unavailable they seem to be up again, at least on the Brother US site: Posted on mandag, febrin Planet Ubuntu-DK, Planets, Ubuntu
