Thank you, Oko:
From the SANE Support Directory, my model is supported:
http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/...&bus=usb&v=&p=
with the "good" status. Figure it's worth a shot to get it working.
Per my earlier post, it's not essential now (I don't scan or print much - any documents that need printing, it's usually job related and done at the client site, or I just head down to one of several "Big Office Stores" not too far from my home office.
When I do expand my SOHO, I'll upgrade my goods. I lobbied Brother pretty hard (exchanging emails - offering to hack up a draft version) to get them port their drivers to Linux. The MFC was on sale - should have bought a Canon or an HP on hindsight
(should have looked it up a bit more).
Figure we get more hardware vendors to recognize/provide for non-Windows system, the better, IMHO. From what I read Sane did state that work on custom backends is not an extremely difficult endeavor.
Here's my dmesg - appreciate the feedback to this thread (especially the 3 steps) - thank you all
$ dmesg
OpenBSD 4.7-beta (GENERIC) #518: Wed Jan 27 19:22:14 MST 2010
todd@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: AMD Sempron(tm) ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 256KB L2 cache) 1.01 GHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,P GE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE
real mem = 2113433600 (2015MB)
avail mem = 2039078912 (1944MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 08/31/04, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfb490, SMBIOS rev. 2.2 @ 0xf0000 (39 entries)
bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD version "6.00 PG" date 08/31/2004
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 (slowidle)
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xdef4
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfde60/144 (7 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 3 5 9 10 11
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:02:0 ("SiS 85C503 System" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x8000!
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "SiS 741 PCI" rev 0x03
sisagp0 at pchb0
agp0 at sisagp0: aperture at 0xd0000000, size 0x8000000
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "SiS 648FX AGP" rev 0x00
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "SiS 6330 VGA" rev 0x00
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "SiS 964 ISA" rev 0x36
pciide0 at pci0 dev 2 function 5 "SiS 5513 EIDE" rev 0x01: 741: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <HDS722540VLAT20>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 39266MB, 80418240 sectors
wd1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1: <Maxtor 6L100P0>
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 95611MB, 195813072 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <SONY, DVD RW DRU-530A, 1.0d> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable
atapiscsi1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1
scsibus1 at atapiscsi1: 2 targets
cd1 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <HL-DT-ST, CD-RW GCE-8526B, 1.03> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
cd1(pciide0:1:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
auich0 at pci0 dev 2 function 7 "SiS 7012 AC97" rev 0xa0: irq 5, SiS7012 AC97
ac97: codec id 0x414c4760 (Avance Logic ALC655 rev 0)
audio0 at auich0
ohci0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "SiS 5597/5598 USB" rev 0x0f: irq 10, version 1.0, legacy support
ohci1 at pci0 dev 3 function 1 "SiS 5597/5598 USB" rev 0x0f: irq 11, version 1.0, legacy support
ohci2 at pci0 dev 3 function 2 "SiS 5597/5598 USB" rev 0x0f: irq 9, version 1.0, legacy support
ehci0 at pci0 dev 3 function 3 "SiS 7002 USB" rev 0x00: irq 3
usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0 "SiS EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
sis0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "SiS 900 10/100BaseTX" rev 0x91: irq 11, address 00:11:5b:15:b4:c5
rlphy0 at sis0 phy 1: RTL8201L 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
unknown vendor 0x2000 product 0x2800 (class communications subclass modem, rev 0x02) at pci0 dev 11 function 0 not configured
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
it0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: IT8705F rev 3, EC port 0x290
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
usb1 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1 "SiS OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb2 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2 "SiS OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb3 at ohci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub3 at usb3 "SiS OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
biomask ef4d netmask ef4d ttymask ffdf
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
umass0 at uhub0 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 "PIONEER CORPORATION PIONEER DVD/CD Writer DVR-S606" rev 2.00/0.01 addr 2
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus2 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0
cd2 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: <PIONEER, DVD-RW DVR-106D, 1.08> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable
vscsi0 at root
scsibus3 at vscsi0: 256 targets
softraid0 at root
root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b