[sane-devel] Network scanning possible?

Carfield Yim carfield at carfield.com.hk
Sun Feb 6 17:18:42 UTC 2011


I checked google but look like doing it for WL-520 is tedious, it need
change the router to another OS, will anyone know any wireless router
support sane-backend native?

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:47 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
> You need to install saned and the hpaio driver on the router. Then
> configure the net backend on your desktop to talk to it.
>
> allan
>
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Carfield Yim <carfield at carfield.com.hk> wrote:
>> I've asked a question and cannot find solution for a long time:
>>
>> I am using wireless router WL-520GU, it have a USB port connected to a
>> printer + scanner: "HP Photosmart C4400"
>>
>> I can print to this printer by pointing CUPS to use network printer at
>> socket://192.168.1.1:9100, can I also get the scanning image from the
>> scanner?
>>
>> I've installed xsane and sane. And tried to run "xsane
>> hpaio:/net/photosmart_c4400_series?ip=192.168.1.1". However, it is
>> complaining:
>>
>> "Dec 11 02:58:10 (none) xsane: io/hpmud/jd.c 88: unable to read device-id"
>>
>> Look like xsane actually expecting the wireless router at 192.168.1.1
>> have sane daemon setup... but that is not the case.
>>
>> Can I tell xsane send scanning command as it is an USB connection, to
>> ip 192.168.1.1? That is the way will work but I cannot find any
>> solution about this.
>>
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