did you try asking the hplip guys? allan
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:06 AM, <kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu> wrote: > > My wife's oldest son just sent me the following note: > > > "I bought an HP LaserJet CM1312nfi CC431A which is a > network printer / scanner (and copier / fax). Printing works perfectly via > the network interface using some generic HP driver which CUPS already had. > For the scanning I was looking at SANE www.sane-project.org , which > appears > to be the primary open source scanner software. > > "The sane-find-scanner program does find the device when I connect it via > USB, but scanimage --list-devices does not. It's not on their supported > list, but I'm thinking (guessing) the scanner can't be all that different > from all the other scanners out there... or at least from the other HPs. > Any ideas on how to get it working ? BTW I have very little knowledge of > USB devices under Linux other than simply mounting drives, so I haven't > really tried anything yet ) > > "(I mainly bought the thing for the printing / copying / fax, so this is > in > part academic; but it would be nice to have it all work in Linux, plus I > figured this might be right up your alley...)" > > > So I wonder if anyone knows anything about this particular gadget. If we > need to learn more about it, then he does not live very close to us, but > he does run Linux at home and would probably be willing to participate to > some extent in figuring out what to do. Naturally, I told him that a first > good step is the output of lsusb or /proc/bus/usb/devices (if available) > or, preferably, both. I have not yet gotten anything back from him about > that. > > Just curious. Do we get better cooperation out of HP these days than we > used to? > > Theodore Kilgore > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"