The easiest way to do this is to run it as a Startup Application open Startup Applications from your launcher by searching from it, and add a new application which runs the command brscan-skey, and restart the machine so that it’s running. You only need to add the scanner once, but you also need to have brscan-skey running always, because that’s what listens for network scan requests from the scanner itself. (If your Brother scanner isn’t a DCP-7055W, you can find the other codenames for types it knows about with brsaneconfig4 -q and then use one of those as the model with brsaneconfig4 -a.) You can test this with brsaneconfig4 -p which will ping the scanner, and brsaneconfig4 -q which will list all the scanner types it knows about and then list your added scanner at the end under Devices on network. This should teach the computer about the scanner. The thing you want from that is address, which in this case is 192.168.1.21. = wlan0 IPv4 Brother DCP-7055W UNIX Printer local hostname = address = port = txt = This will dump out a whole load of stuff, some of which should look like this: You need to know the scanner’s IP address you can find this out from the scanner itself, or you can use avahi-resolve -v -a -r to search your network for it. This is what brsaneconfig4 is for, and is all done in the Terminal. Next, teach the computer about the scanner.
This should give you two new commands in the Terminal: brsaneconfig4 and brscan-skey.
#Ubuntu network scanner driver#
At time of writing, has the software, but if that’s not there when you read this, search the Brother site for DCP-7055 and choose Downloads, then Linux and Linux (deb), and get the Driver Installer Tool. First, go off to the Brother website and download the scanner software. It would be nice if Brother made this easier, but I suppose that it working at all under Ubuntu is an improvement on nothing.Īnyway.
#Ubuntu network scanner how to#
This was more fiddly than it should be, and involved a bunch of annoying terminal work, so I’m documenting it here so I don’t lose track of how to do it should I have to do it again. My dad’s got a Brother DCP-7055W printer/scanner, and he wanted to be able to set it up as a network scanner to his Ubuntu machine.
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