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Installing my new Brother MFC-7820N
I bought a Brother MFC-7820N; although I do not currently intend to use the fax capabilities, the device is good in all aspects, I assume. What especially impressed me is the Linux support Brother gives. The device is not attached to my server – instead, it is directly attached to my network via LAN (it [...]
Using kooka or similar
After I had installed the scanner on the server, the windows client could detect it (using xsane for Windows), but I had problems with kooka on KDE. It turned out that I had to enter the IP (or FQDN) of the server into /etc/sane.d/net.conf on the client – everything works now! Share and Enjoy:
Scanner installation
One of the most useful possibilities the Linux server possesses is the sharing of the scanner amongst the home-LAN. We will install the scanner today. There is a Gentoo Wiki entry on this. So, first we install usbutils. Then, this is the output of lsusb: Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: [...]
