Ok first let me state I thank everyone for all the help over these last 7+ months. I’m on my final item ( I think ) to be fully on Linux. If I can get this working I’ll wipe windows 10 from my pc and just be using Linux. So here’s hoping someone can help me on this problem.
It’s not so much of a MAJOR issue but more of an annoyance.
If I go to Document Scanner in Linux Mint 22.1 I can click the scan button. The scanner will active and scan the document putting it into a pdf or picture. No issues there, so I know the computer can see the scanner. I can also print to the printer. (Should note that the scanner is a scanner/copier)
So the system works in that direction.
If I go to the scanner and using the controls on the front of the scanner and hit scan it will say “No PC Found”. So it’s (in my opinion) a driver issue. I believe the linux system isn’t announcing to the network that “hey I’m here and ready”. Could be easily wrong there.
I went to the bother printer web site where thankfully they have actual linux drivers.
I downloaded the Printer drivers from there. I also downloaded the scanner drivers. Also the Scan-key-tool 64bit drivers.
I can’t remember where I found it, and I tried looking in my history but sadly no luck.
But I do remember a post that asked what the output of
brscan-skey
and
brscan-skey -t
when I type them into the terminal I get no real result, it just looks like
andrew@linux:~$ brscan-skey
andrew@linux:~$ brscan-skey -t
so no real output there but sadly I can’t remember why it was important or even where the webpage was at… but at least you have the output of the commands.
I’m pretty sure that it’s just something simple that I’m missing.
Oh yes, I also turned the firewall in Linux Mint off. Just in case there was an issue there, but no luck. To turn it off what I did was bring up the GUI for the firewall and click the slider / button next to Status. Normally it as a check mark and I set it so the shield is just greyed out.
If you need me to run a command to check something or need more info, please ask.
The printer/scanner is wirelessly connected to the router.
Thank you
I was just saying to use the which command to make sure you had installed the scan key tool in addition to installing the driver. Looks like you did, but it’s not detecting the device (otherwise the -l option would have listed it).