Greetings,

I have an HP OfficeJet Pro 6978 MFC. I have two Linux computers at home, a desktop and a laptop. Both are able to print to it, no problem. I configured the desktop with hp-setup from hplip, using the USB cable. That configures the device to use the wifi. Once configured, I disconnected the USB cable and that desktop computer is able to use the scanner, no problem. I have another laptop, which I just want to connect to the same scanner. I do not want to set the scanner up again, since it is already configured. I just want to tell Sane that there is a scanner at address 192.168.1.157. Sane fails to detect it, and I have no clue how to add it using a GUI nor a terminal for that matter.

The should be a GUI feature that allows me to add a scanner the same way one can add a printer.

Best regards,
Hans Deragon

On 2017-11-26 02:35, Alex ARNAUD wrote:

Le 25/11/2017 à 21:25, Hans Deragon a écrit :
If you use an HP multifunction printer you can configure it from system-config-printer and you scanner feature will automatically work. Nope, that is not the case. system-config-printer is only for the printer side of a MFC device. I can print to my MFC, but I cannot scan it. As a scanner, it does not exists and I have no means to add it manually to Linux.

I don't understand precisely. Are you talking about HP printers or
Brother MFC one? Brother provides a dedicated command-line tool to
configure both printer and scanner.

Best regards.

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