Install the Scanner of a Brother MFC-8460N in Ubuntu 13.04. The printer is connected via network.

brother_mfc-8460n_ubuntu_13.04

# Based on http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Brother/Scanner and http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/MFC-7820N
#
# System information.
$ uname -m
x86_64

$ cat /etc/issue.net
Ubuntu 13.04

# Download and install the driver.
$ wget http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/brscan2-0.2.5-1.amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i brscan2-0.2.5-1.amd64.deb

# Register the scanner.
$ brsaneconfig2 -a name=SCANNER model=MFC-8460N ip=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

# Create /etc/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules:

  # >> /etc/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules
  # Brother MFC-8460N
  ATTR{idVendor}=="04f9", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
  # << /etc/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules

# Create /etc/ld.so.conf.d/brother.conf, otherwise the libraries won't be detected:

  # >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/brother.conf
  /usr/lib64
  /usr/lib64/sane
  # << /etc/ld.so.conf.d/brother.conf

# Activate the libraries.
$ sudo ldconfig

# Restart udev.
$ sudo service udev restart

# Test scanning.
$ simple-scan