[sane-devel] How to make a network scanner Oki MC261 work

[Simon Matter]

Hi,

> Hi,
>
> no idea why, but I just cannot find any serious docs on how to make my
> Oki MC261 scanner work.
> is this because nobody tried yet or because it should be easy?

Oki provides Linux drivers for the MC361 on their support site. I don't
know how they work but you may try it.

Regards,
Simon

>
> I tried sane-airscan some guessed URLs
> [devices]
> MC361_9967e=http://MC361.fritz.box:9967/eSCL
> MC361_9100e=http://MC361.fritz.box:9100/eSCL
> MC361_9967w=http://MC361.fritz.box:9967/WSDScanner, WSD
> MC361_9100w=http://MC361.fritz.box:9100/WSDScanner, WSD
>
> but it just doesn't work.
>
> Open ports according to nmap are
> 80/tcp   open  http
> 515/tcp  open  printer
> 631/tcp  open  ipp
> 9100/tcp open  jetdirect
> 9967/tcp open  unknown
>
> printing works fine.
>
> I tried HPLIP because of the jetdirect port, but this doesn't work either.
>
> cite from manual:> All major network protocols supported via ethernet
> card with
>> internal web server for printer and network card set-up and
>> management. TCP/IPv4&v6, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, SNMPv1&v3,
>> DHCP, DNS, LPR, Port9100, BOOTP, ARP, FTP, CIFS, LDAP, SLP,
>> Bonjour, Web Services Discovery, NetWare, EtherTalk, NetBEUI
>
> it offers Netware, Netbeui and ethertalk, but these I disabled because
> they are outdated?
> avahi-daemon.service was disabled again, I enabled & started it.
> sane
> saned.socket was disabled, I enabled it.
>
> yeah, after enabling this, lookup works:
> network dnssd://MC361._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/
> network dnssd://MC361._printer._tcp.local/
>
> but this does not help with scanning, or does it?
>
> any idea what I am missing?
>
> ps. for my previous printer, i found out there were three different
> backends that somehow worked with it.
> which backends could work with the Oki?
>
>
> I installed https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/okimfpsdrv
> but this did not help either. manual work needed?
>
>
> thank you very much
>
> JPT
>
>