I also have a problem installing Panasonic KX-MB1500 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Drivers taken from https://panasonic.net/cns/pcc/support/fax/common/table/linuxdriver.html#SD As a printer and a copy device it works. Installation itself seemed unproblematic. In the past, version 14., it has worked, it failed in 16 but I have not tried hard.
lsusb gives: Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04da:0f0b Panasonic (Matsushita) Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter sudo sane-find-scanner gives: found USB scanner (vendor=0x0bda [Realtek], product=0x8179 [802.11n NIC]) at libusb:001:002 could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error sudo scanimage -L gives nothing. The end of my /lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane1.rules looks like ----- # Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6300C ATTRS{type}=="3", ATTRS{vendor}=="HP", ATTRS{model}=="C7670A", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes" # Panasonic MFS scanners ATTRS{idVendor}=="04da", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes" LABEL="libsane_rules_end" ---- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1728012 Title: Many 3rd party scanner drivers are broken by a sane change To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1728012/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs