[sane-devel] Network scanning possible?

[m. allan noah]

You need to install saned and the hpaio driver on the router. Then
configure the net backend on your desktop to talk to it.

allan

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Carfield Yim <carfield at carfield.com.hk> wrote:
> I've asked a question and cannot find solution for a long time:
>
> I am using wireless router WL-520GU, it have a USB port connected to a
> printer + scanner: "HP Photosmart C4400"
>
> I can print to this printer by pointing CUPS to use network printer at
> socket://192.168.1.1:9100, can I also get the scanning image from the
> scanner?
>
> I've installed xsane and sane. And tried to run "xsane
> hpaio:/net/photosmart_c4400_series?ip=192.168.1.1". However, it is
> complaining:
>
> "Dec 11 02:58:10 (none) xsane: io/hpmud/jd.c 88: unable to read device-id"
>
> Look like xsane actually expecting the wireless router at 192.168.1.1
> have sane daemon setup... but that is not the case.
>
> Can I tell xsane send scanning command as it is an USB connection, to
> ip 192.168.1.1? That is the way will work but I cannot find any
> solution about this.
>
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