SANE (Scanner server) - Any chance for WL-500g?

**alex_g** · 05-09-2005, 23:12

oops... I found the upload button...

put the module into

/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/usb

**lohmueller** · 27-11-2005, 16:17

Hi all

I tried to attach an Epson USB-Scanner to my WL500gx. At first it looks good, but I'm unable to scan anything. Directly connected to my linux-notebook, this scanner works great with sane.

What I did:
- Installed sane-backends
- and alex_g's scanner.o

sane-find-scanner shows me now the device, but scanning with scanimage does not work (see output below).

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Thomas

Code:

[admin@router /tmp]$ sane-find-scanner
...
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x011d) at /dev/usb/scanner0
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x011d [EPSON Scanner], chip=LM983x?) at libusb:001:002
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
...

[admin@router /tmp]$ scanimage -L
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

**noiser** · 03-06-2006, 09:15

hi!

can someone tell me how i can copy the scanner.o into the directory /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/usb/ ?

it seams that this is a readonly file system. then when i want to creat a new textfile with nano in this directory, there comes an error " [ Could not open file for writing: Read-only file system ] "

can somebody help me?

thanks!

**dotmaster** · 04-02-2008, 23:13

Hi all,

I have the following problem. Attached my HP AIO USB-Scanner.
- Installed sane-backends
- and alex_g's scanner.o with my vendor settings
sane-find-scanner shows me now the device, but scanning with scanimage does not work, which means that there is no suiting SANE backend. Tried to debug and infact

Code:

$ export SANE_DEBUG_DLL=128
$ scanimage -L

gives me the debug output that no backend module in /opt/lib/sane is fitting.
[dll] sane_get_devices: found 0 devices

Going to the sane website gives me no support, as it seems that this project is not very active anymore.
However going to the HPLIP project has support for my device (via SANE), but the module libsane-hpaio seems to be needed.

HPLIP seems not to be available as an Optware Package?!

Can someone help me to compile this module (libsane-hpaio) out of HPLIP or to compile HPLIP???

Thx

Gregor

Originally Posted by lohmueller

Hi all

I tried to attach an Epson USB-Scanner to my WL500gx. At first it looks good, but I'm unable to scan anything. Directly connected to my linux-notebook, this scanner works great with sane.

What I did:
- Installed sane-backends
- and alex_g's scanner.o

sane-find-scanner shows me now the device, but scanning with scanimage does not work (see output below).

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Thomas

Code:

[admin@router /tmp]$ sane-find-scanner
...
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x011d) at /dev/usb/scanner0
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x011d [EPSON Scanner], chip=LM983x?) at libusb:001:002
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
...

[admin@router /tmp]$ scanimage -L
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

**pavelba** · 03-01-2008, 13:04

I have Epson scanner V200. The above mentioned procedure is not applicable for it.
I suppose that I need Epson back-end. The source files are on EPKOWA web: http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_scan.html
I am not able to compile it (I am not expert). Can anybody able to compile it?
Please help me. Thanks.

**oleo** · 03-01-2008, 13:58

Hm. Mail me more details on this backend.

**oleo** · 08-01-2008, 15:57

The problem with the iscan source is that it heavily uses C++ for library and patches to the source is needed.

I have attached iscan.mk to start with. For more instructions how to build this visit http://trac.nslu2-linux.org/optware and wiki on www.nslu2-linux.org

When you wil have workable version you can post me to include it into optware. I am watching this thread so we can stay in touch here.

**pavelba** · 22-01-2008, 08:34

Hi Oleo,
Whole package “iscan” is not possible to build due to missing library GDE. I am sure that this library will miss permanently.
I am working on backend “epkowa” only. I installed the following packages: buildrot, coreutils, libtool, m4 and make. I separated backend necessary files and a little bit modified. But one of source file I can not compile “libltdl/ltdl”. This library needs a C++ library “argz”.
Do you know where is possible to get this library and header for it?
When you interest it you can see my version of epkowa backend source files (not finished).

**oleo** · 22-01-2008, 21:14

You should look for emerge builds examples or maybe some debian/ubuntu packages for dependencies. In any case I think that C++ code will need to be adapted for tollchain in use (4.1.1) and uclibc or glibc directly.

**ram32** · 03-05-2009, 17:32

Code:

[admin@WL-001FC642402C modules]$ ipkg install sane-backends
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 4.
Collected errors:
Cannot find package sane-backends.
Check the spelling or perhaps run 'ipkg update'

[admin@WL-001FC642402C modules]$ cat /opt/etc/ipkg.conf 
#Uncomment the following line for native packages feed (if any)
#src/gz native http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/native/stable
#src/gz optware http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable
src unslung http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable
dest /opt/ /
#option verbose-wget

What's wrong?

**carterb** · 13-09-2009, 09:44

Hi everybody,

for all of you, who have problems by setting up a sane scanne-server on your Asus-Router:
I compiled the actual stable version of the sane-server on my router and it works fine. The ipkg-package is not up to date, many scanners are not supported and you also need a newer version of router-firmware.
I wrote a little HowTo on how to setup the scanner-server with the XSane Frontend in the german Forum. If there are many users interested in a english translation, I can translat it an post it in the Tutorials section.
If you are able to read it in german language look here.

Edit: Here is the english translation of the Sane-Server How-To

Regards
Oliver

**chem-vgasu** · 24-09-2009, 15:10

Hi all,
While getting scanner to work, I can't execute xinetd binary file from USB flash:

Code:

/opt/etc/init.d/S10xinetd: line 14: /opt/sbin/xinetd: not found
$ /opt/sbin/xinetd -d
-sh: /opt/sbin/xinetd: not found
$ ls -l /opt/sbin/xinetd
-rwxr-xr-x    1 admin    root       195092 Jul 11  2008 /opt/sbin/xinetd

Package inetd is not found.
I tried both VFAT and ext3 journaling system (by mke2fs -j).

**hooke** · 19-02-2009, 00:30

hi all!
I have a WL500gP with Oleg's firmware v.1.9.2.7-10
Canon i-SENSYS MF4010 is connected to the router. Printing is no problem,but scanning...
On the sane-project.org it is said that the device may be supported but is untested.
sane-find-scanner says that it's found USB scanner:

PHP Code:


found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon Inc.], product=0x26b4 [MF4010]) at libusb:003:002

but scanimage -L says that

PHP Code:


No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,

check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the

sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation

which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

Has anybody managed to scan with this device using SANE?
Could anybody please say if there is some working backend for this device?

Thanks.

**hooke** · 19-02-2009, 08:44

Further investigations

pixma backend is of 0.14.3 version:

PHP Code:


$ SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=21 scanimage -L

[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of dll to 0.

[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of pixma to 21.

[pixma] pixma version 0.14.3

[pixma] pixma_find_scanners() found 0 devices

I have installed sane-backends_1.0.19+cvs20080315-3_mipsel.ipk

But there is pixma v.0.15 in CVS already! I've googled in linux.debian.bugs.dist, that

"several new ImageCLASS
MFPs are now supported by the pixma backend in CVS (v. 0.15.0).
Plus, the new pixma backend also supports BJNP network scanning for
several PIXMA MFPs, which would probably be welcomed by PIXMA
owners."

I'm not very familiar with compiling... Could somebody do this good job and recompile sane-backends 1.0.19 including latest CVS?
It would be greatly appreciated by many users of new Canon devices...

**powertrain** · 19-04-2009, 11:05

Hello,

i have problems with a wl500gx Oleg 1.9.2.7-10
i have install sane but i downt get my HP AIO 5610 to run
i Have ead in the thread that it gives a hplip in the reository but how can
i install it ?

dit some one have run a working installation with a hp aio scanner ?

thanks Powertrain

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