That said, I just ran xsane and it found the scanner and scanned a document.
So it appears that getting the latest hplip, installing it and then installing the printer in CUPS was enough. Strange that hp-setup couldn't find it at all. Anyway, thanks everyone! MR On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 5:11 PM, MR ZenWiz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Simon Matter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Did you consult the docs at http://hplipopensource.com/ to see how to set >> hplip (which includes hpaio) up? >> >> I did it once for an HP all-in-one and IIRC it required to run a hp-setup >> tool on the box where sane is installed. >> > I just ran hp-setup, both as me and as root, same results: > > mar@mar8710w:~ $ hp-setup -i > > HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.3) > Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0 > > Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP > This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it > under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. > > (Note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press <enter> > to accept the default.) > > > -------------------------------- > | SELECT CONNECTION (I/O) TYPE | > -------------------------------- > > Num Connection Description > Type > -------- ---------- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > 0* usb Universal Serial Bus (USB) > 1 net Network/Ethernet/Wireless (direct connection > or JetDirect) > 2 par Parallel Port (LPT:) > > Enter number 0...2 for connection type (q=quit, enter=usb*) ? 1 > > Using connection type: net > > error: No device selected/specified or that supports this functionality. > > I downloaded that latest hplip (3.15.9) and installed it and this still > happens. > > I reinstalled the printer in CUPS and I still can't get it to show up > as a scanner. > > Getting very frustrated (it's been a long, poor day...). > > Thanks. > MR -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
