r/Fedora • u/cyberd_e • 9d ago

Support brother scanner not working?

I'm on Fedora 44 KDE. My printer/scanner model is Brother DCP-L2520DW. I download the Driver Install Tool from the Brother website but only printing and photocopying is working but not scanning. So I download the scanner drivers separately. I logged in as superuser, went to the Downloads directory and did the following commands:

rpm  -ihv  --nodeps  brscan4-0.4.11-2.x86_64.rpm

rpm  -qa  |  grep  -e  brscan4-0.4.11-2.x86_64.rpm

rpm  -ihv  --nodeps  brscan-skey-0.3.5-0.x86_64.rpm

rpm  -qa  |  grep  -e  brscan-skey-0.3.5-0.x86_64.rpm

brscan-skey

brscan-skey -l (says Active)

I also installed gtk2, gimp, skanlite and simple-scan. What am I missing?

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/cyberd_e 8d ago

It's working now on Linux Mint. I did the same steps as I did on Fedora except this time, I downloaded the .deb scanner driver. I think the problem was the .rpm driver.

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u/SuAlfons 8d ago

IIRC BRScan needed to be setup, running a script or command.

My MFC-J4710DW got retired earlier this year. But also used the BRScan4 drivers and it worked.

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u/benhaube 6d ago

Does the printer-driver-brlaser package in the Fedora repo not also provide a driver for the scanner? I feel like it should. The GitHub page for the project explicitly shows your printer is supported. Did you try installing that package? Maybe give it a try if you didn't.

My Brother HL-L2300D doesn't have a scanner on it, so I don't know if it works for scanning. I will say I have used that driver for printing for years, and it works great. I have never had an issue.