Thanks to the wizards who helped me on this problem. I'm happy to report that scanning is now working with the Canon GX6050 using scangearmp2-4.40 as recommended together with suggested firewall adjustments. It took a bit longer than I had hoped because I was juggling with kernel updates in parallel.
Anyway: PROBLEM SOLVED! Cheers Harvey On Wed, 2023-03-29 at 17:11 +0200, Thierry Huchard wrote: > Le 2023-03-29 12:38, Harvey Nimmo a écrit : > > On Wed, 2023-03-29 at 00:56 +0200, Thierry Huchard wrote: > > > Le 2023-03-28 19:49, Harvey Nimmo a écrit : > > > > I downloaded the rpm of sane-airscan and treid to install it. > > > > Unfortunately, a library (libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.34)/64 bit) is > > > > missing > > > > so > > > > that the installation could not be completed. > > > > What could I do about that? > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Can you try this, it is the scangearmp2 version which includes > > > the > > > sane > > > backend. > > > you should be able to use simple-scan or xsane. > > > > > > https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/thierry1970/15.4/x86_64/ > > > > > > Thierry > > Hi Thiery, > > scangearmp2-4.20-1 is installed. Neither simple-scan nor xsane find > > the > > scanner. > scangearmp2 4.20 does not support scanners of the GX6000 series, this > is > the case with version scangearmp2 4.40. > > Thierry > > > > simple-scan returns: > > [12:27:50.038785] [bjnp] udp_command: ERROR - no data received > > (timeout > > = 10000) > > [12:27:50.038938] [bjnp] bjnp_init_device_structure: Cannot read > > mac > > address, skipping this scanner > > [12:27:51.941786] [bjnp] udp_command: ERROR - no data received > > (timeout > > = 10000) > > [12:27:51.941952] [bjnp] bjnp_init_device_structure: Cannot read > > mac > > address, skipping this scanner > > xsane returns: > > [12:28:46.519643] [bjnp] udp_command: ERROR - no data received > > (timeout > > = 10000) > > [12:28:46.519814] [bjnp] bjnp_init_device_structure: Cannot read > > mac > > address, skipping this scanner > > > > These both fail, irrespective of whether my desktop firewall is > > running > > or not. > > > > scangearpm2 finds the scanner only if my desktop firewall is not > > running. > > > > I wonder if there is a problem with port forwarding in my router? > > but > > which ports apply? > > > > Cheers > > Harvey
