Robert Heller wrote:
We have a networked HP OfficeJet All-In-One. I have the scanner working with the CentOS 5.3, except xsane is ignoring SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE. scanimage does however take this environment variable just fine:
server1.wendellfreelibrary.org% scanimage -L
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). default device is `hpaio:/net/Officejet_Pro_L7700?ip=192.168.1.253' server1.wendellfreelibrary.org% scanimage -T scanimage: scanning image of size 638x1125 pixels at 24 bits/pixel scanimage: acquiring RGB frame, 8 bits/sample scanimage: reading one scanline, 1914 bytes... PASS scanimage: reading one byte... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 2 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 4 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 8 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 16 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 32 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 64 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 128 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 256 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 512 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 1024 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 2048 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 2047 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 1023 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 511 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 255 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 127 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 63 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 31 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 15 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 7 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 3 bytes... PASS server1.wendellfreelibrary.org% echo "$SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE" hpaio:/net/Officejet_Pro_L7700?ip=192.168.1.253
xsane just pops up a little window "scanning for devices", the "no devices available".
I believe I have things properly setup with cups:
In /etc/cups/printers.conf:
<Printer Officejet_Color> Info Location Printer Area #DeviceURI socket://192.168.1.253:9100 DeviceURI hp:/net/Officejet_Pro_L7700?ip=192.168.1.253 State Idle StateTime 1211313246 Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy retry-job </Printer>
I am very interested in this problem as I seem to have it myself. My Printer/Scanner is HPc6180. Do you have HPLIP installed? The version that comes with CentOS is so old that (1.67, I think) that if you have a printer newer than about four years old it won't be supported. I seem to be able to fake the printing part by selecting another printer that should be similar. The scanning part however is not so simple it seems. I installed HPLIP version 3.9.8 and after a grueling effort to satisfy the dependencies, except for dbus-python or python-dbus, it seems to be referred to both ways. HPLIP still claims that it is not installed even though it is. Perhaps my version, although up to date according to yum, is too old. In any case my printer is supported and I was able to scan one frame and then it never worked again. On any attempt to scan xsane puts up a dialog that says "Failed to open device 'v4l:/dev/video': Invalid argument" and then quits. That device I think is the camera which was there and working fine when the single scan succeeded. My Windows XP computer is able to scan so I am confident that the printer hardware is not at fault.
Every time I install a newer version of CentOS (now Linux rwells-cts 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 10:03:38 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) on a Lenovo X200 Thinkpad this scanner setup is a real PITA. Any way I am looking forward to anything you learn as we go forward.
cheers, roger wells