[sane-devel] Canon Maxify GX7150: eSCL/airscan required for ethernet access

Marco Moock mm at dorfdsl.de
Wed Nov 5 16:08:17 GMT 2025


Am 05.11.2025 um 11:37:03 Uhr schrieb Markus Mertens via sane-devel:

> I connected a new Canon Maxify GX7150 to the network (only ethernet)
> and installed the latest Linux drivers from Canon on my Linux PCs. To
> my surprise, I was able to access the scanner without any problems
> using XSane on Mageia 9, but not on openSUSE TumbleWeed. Then I
> noticed that the connection on Mageia 9 runs via "eSCL/airscan". On
> openSUSE TumbleWeed, however, the "sane-airscan" package is separate
> and is not automatically installed when XSane is installed. After
> installing this separate package on openSUSE TumbleWeed, I was able
> to work with XSane without any problems. This means that
> "eSCL/airscan" must be installed in order for me to recognize and use
> the Canon Maxify GX7150 scanner on the ethernet network.

That is something to report to the OpenSUSE developers, as this is
handled in the package dependencies.

-- 
Gruß
Marco

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