[sane-devel] HP2400 HP2400c HP G2410 Re Indian Driver

[Robert John Morton]

Hello
I did a manual translation of the instructions in Portuguese that 
Fernando found for installing a driver for these scanners that is freely 
available from a company in India. I emailed this to the list yesterday.

I have now downloaded and installed this driver and everything works 
fine via xsane for my HP G2410 scanner.

The installation procedure is, in fact, much simpler than given in the 
Brazilian blog. The Brazilians ignored the .doc file that contains the 
installation instructions in English. The instructions in the .doc file 
are better, but not correct for every distribution. They require you to 
log in as root, which is a pain in Ubuntu for instance.

The procedure I use is as follows:

1. Download to your Desktop the main zip file from the Indian site: 
http://www.elcot.in/HP%20Scanjet%202400.zip

2. Click on the file to extract it. It creates a folder HP Scanjet 2400

3. Create a folder called 'scanner' on your Desktop

4. Move the file 2400rv.tar.gz from folder 'HP Scanjet 2400' to folder 
'scanner'.

5. Open the scanner folder, right click the 2400rv.tar.gz and choose 
Extract and select Extract Here.
A Folder will be created as 2400rv.

6. Open a terminal window and switch to superuser mode su and enter su 
password.

7. Type the command : cd / to transfer to root level

8. Type the command : tar -xvzf /home/rob/Desktop/scanner/2400rv/hp2400.tgz
Note that I am user 'rob'. Substitute your own user name in the above.

9. Type the command : tar -xvzf 
/home/rob/Desktop/scanner/2400rv/libsane.tgz
Again, substitute your own user name.

10. Connect and power on the Scanner.

The original procedure now tells you to  check whether the scanner 
installed successfully by typing the command:
scanimage -L
However, this didn't work for me. Continue...

11. Edit the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. I used gedit. You have to be 
superuser to do this so you can launch gedit or kedit with the command:
gedit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
Type hp2400 (without # symbol) after the line hp5400
Save the file and exit the editor.

12. Reboot.

13. You can now open xsane and it should find the scanner and you will 
be ready to scan an image.


NOTE:
I could not find any source code anywhere in this download. 
Nevertheless, we now know what we are aiming for with the genesys 
backend for this scanner.

Regards, Rob