[sane-devel] help scanner not detected

[m. allan noah]

That scanner is not supported by the hp backend. It is probably
supported by the hplip project, which makes a separate backend for the
hp all in one machines.

allan

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 8:42 PM, david beckwith <david at beckwith.net.au> wrote:
> I am running Mepis 12 (Debian derived) with xsane 0.998-3+b1.
> My scanner is an HP Officejet 6700 All-In-One.
> The printer is connected by wireless, the scanner by usb.
> This scanner used to work, what has changed is my desktop
> hardware - but the same printer, OS, and version of xsane.
> Of course I have had to re-install my OS.
> I can't remember now what I changed to make it work the
> first time... but I have updated /etc/sane.d/hp.conf, and
> added /etc/sane.d/hp6700.conf
>
> saneimage -L shows
> "# scanimage -L
> device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname UVC Camera (046d:0819) virtual device"
>
> lsusb shows:
> "# lsusb
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp.
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 004 Device 002: ID 1058:0810 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 005: ID 046d:c52f Logitech, Inc. Wireless Mouse M305
> Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0461:4e24 Primax Electronics, Ltd
> Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:0819 Logitech, Inc. Webcam C210
> Bus 003 Device 006: ID 0a5c:216c Broadcom Corp. <<<<<<<<<<<<<SCANNER
> Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0409:0059 NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub"
>
> sane-find-scanner shows:
> "# sane-find-scanner
>
>   # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
>   # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
>   # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
>
>   # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure
> that
>   # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x0a5c [Broadcom Corp], product=0x216c
> [BCM43142A0]) at libusb:003:006
>   # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported
> by
>   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
>
>   # Not checking for parallel port scanners.
>
>   # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
>   # can't be detected by this program."
>
>
> xsane show only my webcam as a scanning device.
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
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