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|    Mike Easter to Theo    |
|    Re: Scanner software for Brother mfc8480    |
|    24 Aug 25 12:30:25    |
      From: MikeE@ster.invalid              Theo wrote:       > Mike Easter wrote:       >> Mike Easter wrote:       >>> Brother instructions address sane.       >>       >> A 'fly in the ointment' is that the Brother linux tools in .deb & .rpm       >> may be 'limited' in their applicability to 'something' running on a RPi       >> 5, so that may require some 'maneuvering'. To me, it seems like the       >> maneuver of a distro based on Debian stable spun for Pi would likely get it.       >       > Doubtful, because they're i386 and amd64 which won't run on a Pi. You may       > have some mileage in setting up QEMU user mode to emulate x86 binaries on       > the Pi, but I couldn't say whether that wpuld work for these particular       > drivers (wouldn't if they're kernel drivers, but I doubt they are)       >       It looks to me like most of the Bro stuff is bash scripts. But I don't       have the skills to analyze that.              --       Mike Easter              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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