[sane-devel] Canon MF212w Scanner and SANE

Rolf Bensch rolf at bensch-online.de
Fri Dec 4 19:11:05 UTC 2015


Hi,

Beside all installation issues, please don't forget that this scanner
has the status "Untested"
(http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html#S-PIXMA).

This means that this scanner may *NOT* work until some bug fixing will
happen.

I'm sorry, but I cannot supply any support for the Pixma backend until
my Chistmas holidays.

In the meantime you can sniff the USB protocols from a Windows machine.
You can use a pysical or a virtual machine. Usually I'm using Wireshark
with USBPcap (https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB) for this job.

Please compress the log files. The mailing list rejects large emails.

Hope this helps so far.

Cheers,
Rolf

Am 04.12.2015 um 02:05 schrieb Scott:
> Olaf, thank you for your continued help.  Yes, I am a newbie to this
> driver business among many things.
>
>
> On 12/03/2015 04:52 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> monkity writes:
>>
>>> Hi Olaf,
>>>
>>> Olaf writes:
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>> Have you tried sane-backends-1.0.25.  That versions claims that
>>>> support
>>>> for the MF210 Series was added to the pixma backend.
>>>>
>>>> Seeing that you are using Linux Mint, I *guess* that you get your SANE
>>>> backends via the Ubuntu package archives.  The version in Ubuntu's
>>>> wily
>>>> (1.0.25+git20150528) appears to be new enough.
>>>> # The Changelog mention the addition on 2015-04-03.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately nothing is that easy.  Mint doesn't download the 1.0.25
>>> backend with SANE; in fact it doesn't seem to do anything with respect
>>> to backends.  I'm afraid I'm going to have to build the backend from
>>> scratch, and I have no experience with this.
>>> I did find a copy of 1.0.25 on
>>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/sane.html.
>>> That page, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/sane, and others aren't
>>> really designed for Mint and newbies though.  Where should I start?
>>
>> Uh-oh, newbie alert ;-)
>>
>> First, check that you have the libsane package installed.  From a
>> terminal, run
>>
>>    $ dpkg-query -W libsane
>>
>> If that produces something like
>>
>>    libsane:amd64    1.0.25-2
>>
>> things look good.  If, instead you get something like
>>
>>    dpkg-query: no packages found matching libsane
>>
>> there is more work to do but I assume for now that libsane is found.
>> # If not, stop here and get back to me via the mailing list.
>>
>> In that case, you can probably get away with downloading the Ubuntu
>> libsane package from
>>
>>    http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/libsane
>>
>> Just make sure to pick the correct architecture.
>>
>> Once downloaded, run
>>
>>    $ sudo dpkg -i libsane-1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
>>
>> and you should be good to go.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>
> So I ended up trying to install both i386 and amd64 versions. When I
> updated these, I got errors, and had to fix broken packages. After I
> did that, my SANE installation didn't work and the query you gave me
> gave the following result, even after removing SANE and reinstalling it.
>
> $ dpkg-query -W libsane
> libsane:amd64 1.0.23-3ubuntu3.1
> libsane:i386 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2
>
> So I then redid the command on the amd64 deb:
>
> $ sudo dpkg -i libsane_1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
> [sudo] password for flibberty:
> (Reading database ... 194182 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack libsane_1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking libsane:amd64 (1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2) over
> (1.0.23-3ubuntu3.1) ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsane:amd64:
> libsane:amd64 depends on libsane-common (=
> 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2); however:
> Version of libsane-common on system is 1.0.23-3ubuntu3.1.
> libsane:amd64 depends on libgphoto2-port12 (>= 2.5.6); however:
> Package libgphoto2-port12 is not installed.
>
> dpkg: error processing package libsane:amd64 (--install):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> libsane:amd64
>
> Now my query came out as follows:
> $ dpkg-query -W libsane
> libsane:amd64 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2
> libsane:i386 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2
>
> SANE is still not recognizing my Canon.  Do the errors above give you
> any new ideas for me to try?
>
> Thanks again,
> Scott
>
>





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