brother2

This driver was initially designed based on network dumps from wireshark of the windows driver comunicating with a MFC-7820N multifunction printer/scanner/fax.

Because Brother has a single driver ("brscan2", in the case of the MFC-7820N) for a number of devices, I expect that other devices which use the same Brother Proprietary driver ("brscan2") may work with this driver.

For a listing of models, see the [Scanner driver download] link below.

Building

Use make.

Project contains two (2) components:

libsane-bro2.so :: a sane scanner driver.

bro2-serv :: a server which pretends to be a mfc-7820n. Requires libev.

Additional Tools (todo)

• Configure the button presses on the device (appears to be an snmp set operation)

Testing

./bro2-serv

# This works in gentoo. on arch, the /usr/lib/libsane.so.1 (libsane-dll)
# gets loaded first due to RPATH in /usr/bin/scanadf (the gentoo version
# lacks the rpath entry)
# Built with undefined SANE_DLL
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. scanadf -d bro2:127.0.0.1

# For libsane-dll, a dll.d directory with a single config file is created,
# containing the word "bro2". This causes libsane-dll to attempt to load
# Right now this fails because the major version is 0 instead of 1.
SANE_DEBUG_DLL=255 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. scanadf -L

Or, more idealy, use a real scanner instead of the fake one.

Links

Brother's proprietary driver page: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html

Scanner driver download: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_scn.html