[sane-devel] HP PSC 2210 not found

[David Sumbler]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, David Sumbler wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 09:43:02PM +0000, David Sumbler wrote:
> > > I run RedHat 8.0, with an HP PSC-2210 USB printer/scanner/copier.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > But I cannot get sane to work (although it used to).  I have now tried
> > > removing and re-installing sane (1.0.8), but 'scanimage --list
> > > devices' just gives "No scanners were identified." etc.
> >
> > 1.0.8 is quite old, 1.0.13 is current. Anyway, that scanner is not
> > supported by the SANE distribution but by the external hpoj backend so
> > it's the version of that backend that matters.
>
> I installed the latest (hpoj 0.91) yesterday.
>
> > > I modified /etc/xinetd.conf and /etc/services as suggested in 'man
> > > saned', and I tried changing both the user and group in
> > > /etc/xinetd.conf to 'root' as well.
> >
> > You need saned only if you want to scan over the network or if you
> > have a parallel port scanner that needs root priviledges otherwise.
>
> The PSC-2210 is USB only.  My network consists (at the moment) only of
> my PC and a router, so scanning over the network is not currently
> relevant.
>
> However, I think that possibly some of the cups printing problems that
> I was getting until a day or two ago were to do with some confusion
> between 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.0.10 (which is the PC's IP address on
> the LAN) - maybe something odd going on there.
>
> > "scanimage -L" as root should work even in the case of wrong
> > permissions.
>
> No, this doesn't work.
>
> > Does sane-find-scanner find the scanner?
>
> No
>
> > Is "hpoj" mentioned in dll.conf?
>
> This is /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, right?
> Yes - I have the line "hpoj" at the end of the file.
>
> Thanks for your help.

I have still had no success with this.

Do you have any further suggestions?  Incidentally, the PSC-2210 works
fine (including scanning) under Windows ME, so it does not seem to be
a cable or scanner fault.

David

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