Alan McConnell writes: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 08:15:08AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> Alan McConnell writes: >> >> > Assembled Wisdom! >> > >> > I am sure that this question has a simple answer. My situation: >> > I bought a Canon imageCLASS MF4770n all-in-one >> > printer(scanner/copier/fax) on Friday. It took me a while to get >> > my CUPS and lpadmin commands so that it would print, but thanks >> > to the documentation provided by Canon to Linux users, it now >> > prints just fine. I would like it to scan also, and I'm having >> > trouble. I think my "sane back end" is not configured properly. >> > >> > I have run sane-find-scanner and my result is: >> > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon Inc], product=0x2774 >> > [MF4700 Series]) at libusb:001:004 >> > However, scanimage -L reports: "No scanners were identified. . . ." >> > So something is awry. >> > >> > As confirmation, I have checked http://www.sane-project.org/ for >> > Supported devices and my all-in-one given above is indeed on that >> > list. >> > >> > I have simple-scan installed, but when run it can't find the scanner. >> > >> > I am running Debian Wheezy. >> >> Which is two sane-backend releases behind. Changes are you just need a >> newer version of the libsane package. IIRC, the version from Jessie >> installs without any problems on Wheezy. > First of all: thank you for your response. > > Second: there are no backports for either libsane or > sane-backends.
I didn't mean a package from wheezy-backports, I meant a package from jessie's main. I assume you want to stay on Debian' stable release, so echo 'APT:Default-Release "stable";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf if you haven't done so already. Next echo 'deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get update apt-get install libsane=1.0.24 should get you there, in principle. All commands should be run with root privileges, and, no, I haven't tested this. > Third: it is difficult for me to believe that there is > no way for a variant of a very well-known firm, Canon, > to have its particular modus operandi identified. > I would hope that the information given by sane-find-scanner: > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon Inc], product=0x2774 > [MF4700 Series]) at libusb:001:004 > > would be sufficient to add the support for this particular > Canon all-in-one to my present libsane. As Allan has already stated in a separate message, it takes a lot more than just that and, fortunately for you, that has been done already. > I should add: running scanimage --version yiels: > scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.22; backend version 1.0.22 The latest version is 1.0.24. > I reiterate my call for help! Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962 -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
