WoW! That indeed was great. I had almost given up on my scanner, when I read your post. You are a genius, man! Thats wonderful work.
I have visited all those forums where i have been searching for solutions earlier and gave a link to your post. Thanks. keep it up. You are the one! Ganga India Robert John Morton wrote: > > Hello > I did a manual translation of the instructions in Portuguese that > Fernando found for installing a driver for these scanners that is freely > available from a company in India. I emailed this to the list yesterday. > > I have now downloaded and installed this driver and everything works > fine via xsane for my HP G2410 scanner. > > The installation procedure is, in fact, much simpler than given in the > Brazilian blog. The Brazilians ignored the .doc file that contains the > installation instructions in English. The instructions in the .doc file > are better, but not correct for every distribution. They require you to > log in as root, which is a pain in Ubuntu for instance. > > The procedure I use is as follows: > > 1. Download to your Desktop the main zip file from the Indian site: > http://www.elcot.in/HP%20Scanjet%202400.zip > > 2. Click on the file to extract it. It creates a folder HP Scanjet 2400 > > 3. Create a folder called 'scanner' on your Desktop > > 4. Move the file 2400rv.tar.gz from folder 'HP Scanjet 2400' to folder > 'scanner'. > > 5. Open the scanner folder, right click the 2400rv.tar.gz and choose > Extract and select Extract Here. > A Folder will be created as 2400rv. > > 6. Open a terminal window and switch to superuser mode su and enter su > password. > > 7. Type the command : cd / to transfer to root level > > 8. Type the command : tar -xvzf > /home/rob/Desktop/scanner/2400rv/hp2400.tgz > Note that I am user 'rob'. Substitute your own user name in the above. > > 9. Type the command : tar -xvzf > /home/rob/Desktop/scanner/2400rv/libsane.tgz > Again, substitute your own user name. > > 10. Connect and power on the Scanner. > > The original procedure now tells you to check whether the scanner > installed successfully by typing the command: > scanimage -L > However, this didn't work for me. Continue... > > 11. Edit the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. I used gedit. You have to be > superuser to do this so you can launch gedit or kedit with the command: > gedit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf > Type hp2400 (without # symbol) after the line hp5400 > Save the file and exit the editor. > > 12. Reboot. > > 13. You can now open xsane and it should find the scanner and you will > be ready to scan an image. > > > NOTE: > I could not find any source code anywhere in this download. > Nevertheless, we now know what we are aiming for with the genesys > backend for this scanner. > > Regards, Rob > > > > -- > 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 > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/HP2400-HP2400c-HP-G2410-Re-Indian-Driver-tp21374472p23381757.html Sent from the SANE - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
