> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 12:13 +0200, Louis Lagendijk wrote: >> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 07:46 +0200, Nelson wrote: >>>> Hey mailing list, >>> >>>> how can I use the scan buttons of the mx700 with lan connection? If >>>> I work on usb pursuing all the best. Even the buttons. When I run >>>> the printer / scanner on lan work the buttons not to scan. >>>> >>>> greets >>>> candyman >>> >>> >>> >> Hi, >> Right now you can't. I wrote the network layer for the pixma backend, >> and at the time could not figure out the button stuff. It is the only >> part of the network stuff that does NOT work. >> >> And as nobody ever asked, I never got around to look into that anymore. >> I will put it on my TODO list to look into it again when I can find some >> time > hello Nelson/ list, > I finally managed to find some time to work on the bjnp button scan > support for the pixma backend. I got it working, although I am not > really sure that it does not contain faults in some corner cases. As we > are pretty close to the 1.0.23 release of sane, I will not yet commit > the changes to git. It took me quite a while to figure out how the > protocol works, so it has taken quite some time before I got something > working. > > Please let me know if you are in a hurry to test before the 1.0.23 > release is done. If so, I can mail you a patch to apply on top of the > current git. I have only tested this with xsane, as I did not have time > to setup scanbd, sorry. It anyhow looks as if sane and printing (bjnp > backend for cups) can access the device at the same time: I could print > a page while xsane was waiting for a button to be pressed. When the > printjob was done, I was able to press the scan button again. > > Louis > P.s. I will push my changes to git as soon as 1.0.23 is released > > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at 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-request at lists.alioth.debian.org
It is not in a hurry, but if you send me the patch, I can help you test for something. greets Nelson