[sane-devel] Xsane can't find network scanner

[m. allan noah]

The Envy 4500 is not the same as the Scanjet 4500. This device is not
supported by our sane-backends. Try the hplip project, and see if
their sane driver covers it.

allan

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:43 AM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I routinely use my Xubuntu 14.04.3 laptop, at my lady friend's house,
> where she has an HP Envy 4500 all in one on her wireless network.
>
> Xsane can't seem to find the scanner.
>
> I've edited the /etc/sane.d/net.conf to this:
>
> # This is the net backend config file.
>
> ## net backend options
> # Timeout for the initial connection to saned. This will prevent the backend
> # from blocking for several minutes trying to connect to an unresponsive
> # saned host (network outage, host down, ...). Value in seconds.
> # connect_timeout = 60
>
> ## saned hosts
> # Each line names a host to attach to.
> # If you list "localhost" then your backends can be accessed either
> # directly or through the net backend.  Going through the net backend
> # may be necessary to access devices that need special privileges.
> localhost
> mar8710w
> 192.168.0.11
> hp envy 4500
> hp-print-60-envy 4500
>
> As far as I can tell, this require the hp5590 driver, which appears to
> be installed on my machine:
>
> mar at mar8710w:~ $ loc hp5590
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-hp5590.la
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-hp5590.so.1
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-hp5590.so.1.0.23
> /usr/share/man/man5/sane-hp5590.5.gz
>
> And the dll.conf has net and hp both uncommented.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks.
>
> MR
>
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