Greetings Simon,
Isn't this a problem? I thought that Sane, like CUPS, is a generic
standard. So why would my HP MFC's scanner be something HP specific?
Shouldn't there be a way to just tell Sane "Hey, there is a scanner at
IP <xxx> you are unable to detect automatically. Please add it to your
list."?
If a printer is not found, I can add it with system-config-printer. But
if the magic of automatic detection of Sane fails, I cannot add a
scanner manually. This is an important feature that is missing in
Linux, IMHO.
Has this topic been discussed before? I must not be the first to bring
it up.
Best regards,
Hans Deragon
On 2017-11-06 03:25, Simon Matter wrote:
Greetings, I understand that saned is a daemon / API running in the
backend, but I believe that like CUPS's 'system-config-printer', it
should come with a frontend to manage scanners.
AFAIK system-config-printer is a development of RedHat and has no
relation
with CUPS. The only problem here is that RedHat "forgot" to implement
'system-config-scanner' :-)
I have a network (wifi) scanner setup properly. One of my Linux
machine (a desktop computer) connects to it without any issue. I have
setup that machine with hplip. However, another Linux laptop cannot
find it on the network. I know its IP and I can ping it, figure out
the ports that are open, but there is no GUI to add a scanner. In
fact, I cannot even figure out how to add this scanner via the
terminal. Searching for any reference to it under /etc on the desktop
machine for which it works returns nothing. I have no clue where the
scanner is configured on that machine so I can copy the configuration
on the laptop. The scanner is part of my MFC "HP Officejet Pro 6978
All-in-one". hplip requires me to set it up (again!) with a USB cable.
But this device is already setup and I should not have to plug as USB
cable to it and reconfigure it. I should just be able to find it on
the network and go on with it, or at least, add it manually via a GUI.
Here again, AFAIK, HPLIP is a HP thing and not developed by SANE. So I
guess you should send your requests to the HPLIP developers as only
they
may be able to help you with the HP specific things.
Regards,
Simon
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