Brother MFC scanner no longer works

[Keith Clark]

I had my Brother MFC 240 working just fine for over a month, then on 14 July it just stopped working and now xsane gives the following error:

Failed to open device `brother2:bus2;dev1': Error during device I/O.

It works under Vista and I've changed my users back to that for the time being.

Keith

[Keith Clark (keithclark)]

Here is a clip from /var/log/messages when I unplug and plug the MFC in.

Jul 17 09:17:31 bookworm-acerdesktop kernel: [ 1016.622216] usb 6-1: USB disconnect, address 2
Jul 17 09:17:31 bookworm-acerdesktop kernel: [ 1016.625146] usblp0: removed
Jul 17 09:17:40 bookworm-acerdesktop kernel: [ 1025.624025] usb 6-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
Jul 17 09:17:40 bookworm-acerdesktop kernel: [ 1025.822780] usb 6-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jul 17 09:17:40 bookworm-acerdesktop kernel: [ 1025.856198] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04F9 pid 0x01AB
Jul 17 09:17:40 bookworm-acerdesktop kernel: [ 1025.872898] scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jul 17 09:17:45 bookworm-acerdesktop kernel: [ 1030.889239] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Brother MFC-240C 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jul 17 09:17:45 bookworm-acerdesktop kernel: [ 1030.941798] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
Jul 17 09:17:45 bookworm-acerdesktop kernel: [ 1030.942852] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0

Hope this helps.

Keith

[Keith Clark (keithclark)]

Attached is the driver that I got from the Brother website.