On 9/25/21 12:18 AM, DennisG wrote:
On 9/23/21 1:34 PM, DennisG wrote:
On 9/23/21 12:57 AM, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
On 9/22/21 6:28 PM, DennisG wrote:
On 9/22/21 2:27 PM, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
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Yes, after a lot of trouble and back-and-forth, I got the scanner to work. I need it again, somehow.
I'm not about to try to de/reconstruct all that again. If in 2019 and/or 2020 there was a solution, maybe you should find those posts.
--dg
Yes, I got it working in 2019. As someone already said, I should have put it in my paper logbook, but it got overlooked. If someone can tell me how to find those emails (and not a stack of completely unrelated ones from everybody about everything) I would be extremely happy to look them up! I do remember that there was a file MISSING from OpenSUSE that I had to copy from another Linux system. I don't think I have that system anymore to copy from since I had a lot of destruction recently due to lightning. --doug
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Ok Doug, I think I found the solution by scanning through my personal email archive . . . this was all in mid-2019.
There are 3 pieces here. I think the third was the solution.
First, you downloaded imagescan-bundle-opensuse-15.2-3.65.0.x64.rpm.tar.gz from the Epson site and ran the install script, but it failed because there were two components that are proprietary to Epson which would not install (for several reasons, too detailed to recap here).
Second, you found a firmware for the Epson V300 somewhere else which you were able to install but still left the machine not working properly. I don't think that firmware is applicable for your particular model.
Third, I pointed you to the iscan package which is in the Packman repository. It provides the proprietary front-end pieces that opensuse cannot. So just run YaST/Software, search for iscan, install it, and then you should be able to install the scanner with YaST/Scanner. This worked before.
NOTE: I am presuming the Epson is attached via USB, and so it is not networked on the LAN. If it is networked and YaST does not see it after installing the iscan package, you may need to install an additional package. But I'm not going to go there unless the Epson is networked _and_ the iscan package by itself does not solve the problem.
Good luck.
--dg Leap 15.2 & 15.3/KDE
According to the Seiko documentation that comes with the Epson archive that qas downloaded before (#1 above), it is possible for a network scanner to work if a certain driver is used. Not knowing if that applies, the advice is to try iscan alone.
This was the problem that blocked you the first time when you used the install script from the Epson download. If you had read the documentation, you would know that the script is intended to be run with parameters, including what type of connection you have.
You need to install the packages iscan-plugin and sane-backends; the former which provides the proprietary network component to work with iscan.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I don't know which one did the trick--I ran zypper on each, and it gave me a lot of crap on the first one, but it finally installed all or part of it. The second one ran smoothly. And you can bet that I have already put this in my notebook! --doug
Good luck.
--dg 15.2 & 15.3/KDE