[sane-devel] HP Offijet 5110

[Till Kamppeter]

"sane-find-scanner" shows only scanners which are accessed the standard 
way on USB or SCSI. The HP multi-function devices have a special access 
method. There are low-level driver daemons (HPLIP: hpiod and hpssd; 
HPOJ: ptal-mlcd) which talk to the scanner via the "usblp" kernel module 
(the one for USB printers). The "hpaio" and "hpoj" backends talk to the 
appropriate low-level driver daemon. "scanimage -L" should show your 
scanner.

    Till

Guido Milanese wrote:
> I recently bought a HP officejet 5110: it works very well as USB printer, but 
> I do not know how to configure it as scanner. I posted a message in another 
> list (linuxprinting.hp) but I thinks it was not the best place, so I'm 
> repeating the question here.
> 
> Typing sane-find-scanner from shell or using GUI provided by my Linux
> distribution (Mandriva LE 2005: kernel 2-6-11) does not change the final 
> result: the scanner is not seen by the OS. The answer of sane-find-scanner 
> is:
> 
>   # No SCSI scanners found.[etc]
>   # No USB scanners found. [etc]
> 
> scanimage -L outputs: "No scanners were identified." etc. 
> 
> The driver used by CUPS is hplip. There is also hpoj, that I understand that 
> must be used for scanning. I the list below correct?
> 
> /usr/lib/sane/libsane-hpoj.so
> /usr/lib/sane/libsane-hpoj.so.1
> /usr/lib/sane/libsane-hpoj.so.1.0
> /usr/lib/libhpojip.so.0
> /usr/lib/libhpojip.so.0.1
> /usr/lib/libsane-hpoj.so
> /usr/lib/libsane-hpoj.so.1
> /usr/lib/libsane-hpoj.so.1.0
> 
> I also found, googling for a while, that there must be libusb: in my system I 
> found:
>  
> /usr/bin/libusb-config
> /usr/lib/libusb.la
> /usr/lib/libusb.so
> /lib/libusb-0.1.so.4
> /lib/libusb-0.1.so.4.4.0
> /lib/libusb.la
> 
> I thank your for any help. What I would like to find is a good tutorial or a 
> howto.
> 
> thanks!
>