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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.   
      
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   Mike Easter   
      
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