Hi, Beside all installation issues, please don't forget that this scanner has the status "Untested" (http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html#S-PIXMA).
This means that this scanner may *NOT* work until some bug fixing will happen. I'm sorry, but I cannot supply any support for the Pixma backend until my Chistmas holidays. In the meantime you can sniff the USB protocols from a Windows machine. You can use a pysical or a virtual machine. Usually I'm using Wireshark with USBPcap (https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB) for this job. Please compress the log files. The mailing list rejects large emails. Hope this helps so far. Cheers, Rolf Am 04.12.2015 um 02:05 schrieb Scott: > Olaf, thank you for your continued help. Yes, I am a newbie to this > driver business among many things. > > > On 12/03/2015 04:52 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> Hi Scott, >> >> monkity writes: >> >>> Hi Olaf, >>> >>> Olaf writes: >>> >>>> [...] >>>> Have you tried sane-backends-1.0.25. That versions claims that >>>> support >>>> for the MF210 Series was added to the pixma backend. >>>> >>>> Seeing that you are using Linux Mint, I *guess* that you get your SANE >>>> backends via the Ubuntu package archives. The version in Ubuntu's >>>> wily >>>> (1.0.25+git20150528) appears to be new enough. >>>> # The Changelog mention the addition on 2015-04-03. >>> >>> Unfortunately nothing is that easy. Mint doesn't download the 1.0.25 >>> backend with SANE; in fact it doesn't seem to do anything with respect >>> to backends. I'm afraid I'm going to have to build the backend from >>> scratch, and I have no experience with this. >>> I did find a copy of 1.0.25 on >>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/sane.html. >>> That page, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/sane, and others aren't >>> really designed for Mint and newbies though. Where should I start? >> >> Uh-oh, newbie alert ;-) >> >> First, check that you have the libsane package installed. From a >> terminal, run >> >> $ dpkg-query -W libsane >> >> If that produces something like >> >> libsane:amd64 1.0.25-2 >> >> things look good. If, instead you get something like >> >> dpkg-query: no packages found matching libsane >> >> there is more work to do but I assume for now that libsane is found. >> # If not, stop here and get back to me via the mailing list. >> >> In that case, you can probably get away with downloading the Ubuntu >> libsane package from >> >> http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/libsane >> >> Just make sure to pick the correct architecture. >> >> Once downloaded, run >> >> $ sudo dpkg -i libsane-1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb >> >> and you should be good to go. >> >> Hope this helps, >> > > So I ended up trying to install both i386 and amd64 versions. When I > updated these, I got errors, and had to fix broken packages. After I > did that, my SANE installation didn't work and the query you gave me > gave the following result, even after removing SANE and reinstalling it. > > $ dpkg-query -W libsane > libsane:amd64 1.0.23-3ubuntu3.1 > libsane:i386 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2 > > So I then redid the command on the amd64 deb: > > $ sudo dpkg -i libsane_1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb > [sudo] password for flibberty: > (Reading database ... 194182 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack libsane_1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking libsane:amd64 (1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2) over > (1.0.23-3ubuntu3.1) ... > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsane:amd64: > libsane:amd64 depends on libsane-common (= > 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2); however: > Version of libsane-common on system is 1.0.23-3ubuntu3.1. > libsane:amd64 depends on libgphoto2-port12 (>= 2.5.6); however: > Package libgphoto2-port12 is not installed. > > dpkg: error processing package libsane:amd64 (--install): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Errors were encountered while processing: > libsane:amd64 > > Now my query came out as follows: > $ dpkg-query -W libsane > libsane:amd64 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2 > libsane:i386 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2 > > SANE is still not recognizing my Canon. Do the errors above give you > any new ideas for me to try? > > Thanks again, > Scott > > -- 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