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 Yes, also Leap 15.3 and KDE. Anyway, the Epson is on the lan, not usb. I have installed the iscan package. The system still can't find the scanner, altho it prints to the printer OK. I tried to look thru the past q&a on scanners, but it goes on past 70 items, and covers quite a few years. I also have not been able to find ONLY MY OWN correspondence trail on the question from 2019. (When I was running Tumbleweed, btw.) --doug