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:
>> snip
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
>> snip
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