<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM JPT via sane-devel <<a href="mailto:sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net">sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Thanks Ralph<br>
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Seems to be installed just fine.<br>
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SANE_DEBUG_DLL=5 scanimage-L 2>>(grep-i oki)<br>
[19:46:44.589164] [dll] add_backend: adding backend `oki'<br>
[19:46:44.589192] [dll] load: searching backend `oki' in `/usr/lib/sane'<br>
[19:46:44.589199] [dll] load: trying to load <br>
`/usr/lib/sane/libsane-oki.so.1'<br>
[19:46:44.589215] [dll] load: dlopen()ing `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-oki.so.1'<br>
[19:46:44.591812] [dll] init: initializing backend `oki'<br>
[19:46:44.592042] [dll] init: backend `oki' is version 1.0.0<br>
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Next step would be either to attach via USB (some effort ;) or tell it <br>
the IP address.<br>
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recently I added an IP address to xerox_mfp.conf which made the old <br>
scanner work.<br>
<br>
But the exact syntax was extremely hard to find because most network <br>
topics deal with making network access to an USB scanner connected to a <br>
remote PC.<br>
<br>
and I fear the syntax for the Oki would be different.<br>
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any idea how I could solve this?<br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>There is some Python (python 2) that is used to configure scanners and during installation. It might be worth having a look at that.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ralph</div><br></div></div>