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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Brother MFC-295CN Printer Scanner Fax with Fedora 12, Add the following 2 lines at the last of the device entry.

For Brother MFC-295CN Printer Scanner Fax Machine. After installing all of the Brother Drivers and Apps, my scanner still didn't work. I found this on the Brother Support Site along with the drivers and apps (that is where I downloaded them all and installed them from the RPM's). Later I saw them listed in  in Add/Remove Programs too. But I didn't see them in the list until after I did the manual downloads and installs. There are other Distros shown there too. It worked for me. The info is at...
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/instruction_scn1c.html#f12

Fedora 12
1. Open"/lib/udev/rules.d/65-libsane.rules"
2. Add the following 2 lines at the last of the device entry. (just before "# The following rule...").
# Brother    ATTR{idVendor}=="04f9", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
3. Restart the OS.
Brother's Driver Pages
Brother MFC-295CN Printer Scanner Fax Linux Drivers
Brother Solutions Center : Brother Driver for Linux Distributions
Brother Solutions Center : Brother Driver for Linux Distributions
Brother Solutions Center : Brother Driver for Linux Distributions
Brother Solutions Center : Brother Driver for Linux Distributions
Brother Solutions Center : Brother Driver for Linux Distributions


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