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

[Ralph Little]

Hi,


On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM JPT via sane-devel <
sane-devel at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:

> Thanks Ralph
>
> Seems to be installed just fine.
>
> SANE_DEBUG_DLL=5 scanimage-L 2>>(grep-i oki)
> [19:46:44.589164] [dll] add_backend: adding backend `oki'
> [19:46:44.589192] [dll] load: searching backend `oki' in `/usr/lib/sane'
> [19:46:44.589199] [dll] load: trying to load
> `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-oki.so.1'
> [19:46:44.589215] [dll] load: dlopen()ing `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-oki.so.1'
> [19:46:44.591812] [dll] init: initializing backend `oki'
> [19:46:44.592042] [dll] init: backend `oki' is version 1.0.0
>
> Next step would be either to attach via USB (some effort ;) or tell it
> the IP address.
>
> recently I added an IP address to xerox_mfp.conf which made the old
> scanner work.
>
> But the exact syntax was extremely hard to find because most network
> topics deal with making network access to an USB scanner connected to a
> remote PC.
>
> and I fear the syntax for the Oki would be different.
>
> any idea how I could solve this?
>
>
OK, yeah it seems like the OKI install package also installs an additional
demon okiscand which provides device management functions.
I'm fairly sure that the code for this is not in that repo. When we come to
make it available, we might have to fill that gap with something ourselves.
Probably won't be a daemon, but something that can read a config file to
keep things simple.

Cheers,
Ralph
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