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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?
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hplip tazpkg is the gui program for setting up HP devices.
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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.
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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
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Press ENTER to close...
Earlier, Sane used to close with no scanners found message.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Post the output: uname -a
I'll try to compile hplip.tazpkg with --enable-network-build
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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:~$
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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
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@mojo, it all works fine now. Many many thanks for your help.
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