[sane-devel] officejet scanning

[David Paschal]

Paulo Filipe Canha de Andrade wrote:
> I have just spent 5 hours getting my officejet r45 (hp all-in-one
> printing/scaning) to work in redhat 7.1. Printing is fine!:) But after
> installing sane backends and frontends, xsane following the howto I
> ended up with this:
> 
> [paulinho at Unixuser paulinho]$ scanimage -L
> ptalMlcChannelOpen(chan=0x08054A88): error creating socket!
> ptalChannelOpen(chan=0x08054A88): provider failed open!
...
> In each case when I check /var/log/messages it says:
> 
> Nov 10 13:12:16 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-24
> 
> I have no idea what this module is, never heard about it....

Hi, Paulo.  net-pf-24 is the ieee12844.o module in version 0.7 and earlier
of the HP OfficeJet Linux driver (hpoj), but it doesn't work very well on
2.4 kernels.  Please upgrade to hpoj-0.8, available from
http://hpoj.sourceforge.net, and I'm confident it will work much better
for you.

I hope this helps.

David