Hi, On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM JPT via sane-devel < sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
> Thanks Ralph > > Seems to be installed just fine. > > SANE_DEBUG_DLL=5 scanimage-L 2>>(grep-i oki) > [19:46:44.589164] [dll] add_backend: adding backend `oki' > [19:46:44.589192] [dll] load: searching backend `oki' in `/usr/lib/sane' > [19:46:44.589199] [dll] load: trying to load > `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-oki.so.1' > [19:46:44.589215] [dll] load: dlopen()ing `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-oki.so.1' > [19:46:44.591812] [dll] init: initializing backend `oki' > [19:46:44.592042] [dll] init: backend `oki' is version 1.0.0 > > Next step would be either to attach via USB (some effort ;) or tell it > the IP address. > > recently I added an IP address to xerox_mfp.conf which made the old > scanner work. > > But the exact syntax was extremely hard to find because most network > topics deal with making network access to an USB scanner connected to a > remote PC. > > and I fear the syntax for the Oki would be different. > > any idea how I could solve this? > > > I'm not entirely sure. I just had a quick scan through the code. There appears to be reference to a UNIX socket at /dev/okiscand for devices. This would suggest that there is another daemon at play here in addition to the backend itself. Presumably, this loads up and maintains a list of known devices in the background. That would have the advantage of making startup very quick. There is some Python (python 2) that is used to configure scanners and during installation. It might be worth having a look at that. Cheers, Ralph
