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Configure Network Scanner

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• Started 12 years ago by gdesilva
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   gdesilva
   

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   Hi, I have a HP all-in-one device and have configured the it as a printer without any problem. However, when I run Sane tools it cannot find the scanner as it appears that Sane only looks for directly attached devices.

   How can I get Sane to configure a network scanner?

   Thanks

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   hplip tazpkg is the gui program for setting up HP devices.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   gdesilva
   

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   @mojo, I have hplip installed but there is no hplip executable. I did however found hp-scan and other host of hp utilities including hp-setup. None of them can detect the network connected printer/scanner even when I provide the printer name or device uri.

   Upon further checking I found that /etc/hp/hplip.conf file has following settings

   # hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.

   [hplip]
   version=3.11.3

   [dirs]
   home=/usr/share/hplip
   run=/var/run
   ppd=/usr/share/ppd/HP
   ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd
   doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.11.3
   icon=/usr/share/applications
   cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend
   cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter
   drv=/usr/share/cups/drv/hp

   # Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
   [configure]
   network-build=no
   pp-build=no
   gui-build=no
   scanner-build=yes

   etc....

   Perhaps excluding network build explains why these utilites cannot find the printer?

   If this is the case, is there any way to do a new build with network support? This may be a long shot but I thought of asking anyway.

   Thanks

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   gdesilva
   

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   Additional info....

   By using hp-probe -bnet I found that my device uri was listed as

   hp:/net/Photosmart_2700_series?zc=HP2850A0 and not as socket://10.0.0.3 which was what I found from the cups printers.conf file.

   Removed the cups printer definition and added the printer with above uri. Now when I run Sane, I get the following error message.

   device `hpaio:/net/Photosmart_2700_series?zc=HP2850A0' is a Hewlett-Packard Photosmart_2700_series all-in-one
   Segmentation fault
   ----
   Press ENTER to close...

   Earlier, Sane used to close with no scanners found message.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   If 10.0.0.3 is the i.p. address of the scanner:
   xsane hpaio:/net/Photosmart_2700_series?ip=10.0.0.3

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   gdesilva
   

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   @mojo,

   Tried it but the same error...Segmentation Fault.

   I also tried hp-check -r and got 3 errors and a few warnings. I will go through them and see whether they can be resolved and post the results later on.

   Thanks

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   gdesilva
   

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   So far no success with configuring the printer or scanner using hplip utilities. I keep getting segmentation fault errors. hp-check reports of 3 errors with regards to non-existent packages which I cannot find in the Slitaz repositories. The only way I can configure the printer is by using Cups but that does not allow me to configure the scanner.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   gdesilva
   

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   After so many attempts I have just given up using hplip to configure printer/scanner due to run time errors shown by hp-check and also when configured using hplip both printer and scanner causes segmentation faults. It appears the only way to configure the printer is using cups?

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   Post the output: uname -a
   I'll try to compile hplip.tazpkg with --enable-network-build

   Posted 12 years ago #
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    gdesilva
    

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    @mojo - thanks for taking the trouble to look at this issue. The output of uname -a is given below.

    guptila@cruzo:~$ uname -a
    Linux cruzo 2.6.37-slitaz #2 SMP Tue Jun 14 19:11:34 CEST 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
    guptila@cruzo:~$

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    mojo
    

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    hplip network build:
    http://www.mediafire.com/file/chhln5lr3dbw56n/hplip-3.11.3.tazpkg

    #tazpkg clean-cache
    #tazpkg remove hplip
    #tazpkg install hplip-3.11.3.tazpkg

    Troubleshooting: http://hplipopensource.com/node/332

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    gdesilva
    

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    @mojo, it all works fine now. Many many thanks for your help.

    Posted 12 years ago #

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