[sane-devel] Error during device I/O with network attached HP

[Steven Legowik]

Thanks Johannes,

I'll see what information I can get through the HPLIP mailing list.  I saw the 
listing on the support page that claims that the 4100 doesn't have network 
support, and I am confused what that means.  I can ping the printer on the 
network.  I can print to it over the network. I've been doing that for months 
now.  

Where does "scanimage -L" get its information from?  Does reply indicate that 
it is connecting to the printer, or just that the driver is installed?  I 
guess it must be the latter since I get the same response with the printer 
turned off.

-steve

On Wednesday 30 May 2007, sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On May 29 10:29 Steven Legowik wrote (shortened):
> > I am trying to access the scanning function of a network attache HP
> > LaserJet 4100MFP, but I keep getting "Error during device I/O" from
> > xsane.
> >
> > Using scanimage I get the following:
> >
> > [legowik at tahiti ~/proj]$ scanimage -L
> > device `hpaio:/net/HP_LaserJet_4100_MFP?ip=192.168.1.152' is a
> > Hewlett-Packard HP_LaserJet_4100_MFP all-in-one
> >
> > [legowik at tahiti ~/proj]$
> > scanimage -d "hpaio:/net/HP_LaserJet_4100_MFP?ip=192.168.1.152"
> > scanimage: open of device
> > hpaio:/net/HP_LaserJet_4100_MFP?ip=192.168.1.152 failed: Error during
> > device I/O
>
> The hpaio driver is not part of the SANE software but a so called
> "external backend", which comes directly from HP, see
> http://hplip.sourceforge.net/
>
> See
> http://hplip.sourceforge.net/troubleshooting/network.html
>
> But
> http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/mono_laser_mfp.html
> indicates that there is "No" network support for the LaserJet 4100mfp
> so that you may have to connect it only directly via USB.
>
> For details you may ask on the HPLIP mailing list:
> http://hplip.sourceforge.net/mailing_lists.html
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner