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

[Gangak]

WoW!

That indeed was great. I had almost given up on my scanner, when I read your
post. You are a genius, man! Thats wonderful work. 

I have visited all those forums where i have been searching for solutions
earlier and gave a link to your post. Thanks. keep it up. You are the one!

Ganga
India

Robert John Morton wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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