Hello, On Feb 15 12:38 Bruce Samhaber wrote (excerpt):
I am trying to install a scanner with YaST and keep getting the message:
Error Failed to determine the active scanners. When the net metadriver is activated and something is wrong in the network, it can happen that there is no response from the 'Scanimage -L' command. For example when the communication with a server whcih should be used by the net metadriver gets distorted because a firewall drops some network traffic in this case it should help to disable the net metadriver as a work around until the issue in the network is fixed.
I do not have any known networking problems at the moment. I am trying to install the scanner on the machine that the scanner is connected to.
Does anyone understand this?
This worked well in SUSE 10.2, why is this broken now?
If you do not have the 'net' metadriver activated I have no idea what else could let "scanimage -L" hang up. See what I wrote at your bug report: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672304 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The only reason which I know, when 'scanimage' hangs up is described in the above YaST error message. ... You may have a look at the section about "Trouble-Shooting (Debugging)" in http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners which should help you to find out what the actual root cause is in your particular case. ... In your particular case when "scanimage -L" hangs up with a locally connected USB scanner you may do as root: export SANE_DEBUG_DLL=4 export SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=128 scanimage -L >/dev/null && echo OK || echo FAILED unset SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB unset SANE_DEBUG_DLL ----------------------------------------------------------------- On the other hand this does not mean that the above "only reason which I know" is the only possible reason. As far as I see all you could do now is the above described "Trouble-Shooting (Debugging)". Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org