[sane-devel] Looking for network scanner connection information

Andrew Goodbody elfringham at gmail.com
Tue Jan 23 08:53:22 UTC 2018


I have an Epson SX-425W all-in-one connected over WiFi that I believe 
uses the epson2 backend. I have not looked at the code so can't really 
say that it would make a good reference apart from the fact that it 
works for me.

Andrew

On 23/01/18 01:27, Jimi Damon wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> Is there a reference network scanner backend that you recommend that I 
> check out if I wanted to fix canon_dr so that it would work over wifi ?
> 
> I'm proficient in C/bash etc and would be interested in trying to 
> upgrade it if I had something to go off of.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 5:17 PM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kitno455 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     The sane canon_dr backend does not support network scanners. You
>     will need to do some programming to make it work.
> 
>     allan
> 
>     On Jan 22, 2018 7:48 PM, "Jimi Damon" <jdamon at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jdamon at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         I'm looking to get my Canon dr-c225w working with my Ubuntu
>         16.04 distro.
> 
>         The scanner is wifi enabled so I don't need a USB connected host
>         to use it.
> 
>         My question  is: I can't find any examples (using my google-fu)
>         that *just *allows a Linux pc to connect to the scanner without
>         a dedicated USB device...ie only via Ethernet / wifi .
> 
> 
>         Can anyone point me to a better reference ?
> 
>         Thanks,



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