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Network scanning via Brother MFC-9840CDW on Gentoo

This is actually a pretty simple process, took me a total of 10 minutes emerge -v xsane download the appropriate rpm from Brother rpm2targz brscan3-0.2.11-4.i386.rpm tar -xvzf brscan3-0.2.11-4.i386.tar.gz -C / echo “brother3” > /etc/sane.d/dll.d/brother.conf brsaneconfig3 -a name=MFC9840CDW model=MFC-9840CDW ip=your.brother.ip That’s it! scanimage should … Continue reading

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