[sane-devel] Help. Any Ideas?

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

Hello,

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:41 AM, Peter Talbott <pet350 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm hoping someone could help me with this.
>
> My OS: kubuntu 14.04 amd64
> My scanner is wired on my home network:
>      Canon MF230
>      IP 172.16.184.25/24 (set static IP)
>
> Printing works fine. Scanner will not detect with sane.

In general, scanimage isn't very good at detecting network-connected scanners.
However, you scanner might still work.
Things you can try (if you haven't already):
xsane
$ xsane <backend>:net:<ip address>
so something like
$ xsane pixma:net:172.16.184.25

should work.
HTH

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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen