Comments on: Brother MFC-9320CW http://www.ourada.org/blog/archives/436?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid= Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:37:54 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven http://www.ourada.org/blog/archives/436/comment-page-1#comment-27509 Steven Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:48:29 +0000 http://www.ourada.org/blog/?p=436#comment-27509 I seem to remember being able to compile it a long while ago. Just now, though, I grabbed the source from http://www.brother.com/cgi-bin/agreement/agreement.cgi?dlfile=http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/brscan3-src-0.2.11-4.tar.gz&lang=English_source and was not very successful. There aren't any good instructions, and just doing 'make' leads to several errors. I was able to fix one, but the next one was more difficult and I gave up for now. They claim to be GPL, but there appear to be some binary components in there without any source. So, I dunno. Either they aren't very good at software, or they're hiding something, or both. Maybe not much better than your typical vendor in that respect. I seem to remember being able to compile it a long while ago. Just now, though, I grabbed the source from http://www.brother.com/cgi-bin/agreement/agreement.cgi?dlfile=http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/brscan3-src-0.2.11-4.tar.gz&lang=English_source and was not very successful. There aren’t any good instructions, and just doing ‘make’ leads to several errors. I was able to fix one, but the next one was more difficult and I gave up for now. They claim to be GPL, but there appear to be some binary components in there without any source.

So, I dunno. Either they aren’t very good at software, or they’re hiding something, or both. Maybe not much better than your typical vendor in that respect.

]]> By: David S. http://www.ourada.org/blog/archives/436/comment-page-1#comment-27507 David S. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:45:24 +0000 http://www.ourada.org/blog/?p=436#comment-27507 Have you tried to compile the scanner drivers yourself? Do they provide all the needed information for building it? Or is the same approach as Canon does, where they just provide you with source code which depends on some pre-compiled binaries (from Canon) in addition? Have you tried to compile the scanner drivers yourself? Do they provide all the needed information for building it? Or is the same approach as Canon does, where they just provide you with source code which depends on some pre-compiled binaries (from Canon) in addition?

]]> By: henry http://www.ourada.org/blog/archives/436/comment-page-1#comment-25913 henry Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:53:31 +0000 http://www.ourada.org/blog/?p=436#comment-25913 Finding accessories that will play nice with Linux is always tricky -- thanks for the info. I am going to try this model. Finding accessories that will play nice with Linux is always tricky — thanks for the info. I am going to try this model.

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