Dear All, I am new to Suse 8 and liking it so far. I , also, use Linux Mandrake 9. Anyway, I had my unsupported scanner working with LM9 very nicely using the niash patch for sane. There was a special procedure to get this working for LM 9 and it finally worked very well. Now, I would like to get this working with Suse 8 and so far no luck since there are some differences between LM 9 and Suse 8. I am sure it would work in Suse 8, however, I am not sure exactly what I need to do. Is anyone using this scanner with Suse sucessfully using the niash testtool ? If anyone could help me step by step I would appreciate it greatly. The testtool and information come from this link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hp3300backend/. Any suggestions or help will be appreciated. Thank you, Marcia
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 03:59, Marcia wrote:
Dear All,
I am new to Suse 8 and liking it so far. I , also, use Linux Mandrake 9. Anyway, I had my unsupported scanner working with LM9 very nicely using the niash patch for sane. There was a special procedure to get this working for LM 9 and it finally worked very well. Now, I would like to get this working with Suse 8 and so far no luck since there are some differences between LM 9 and Suse 8. I am sure it would work in Suse 8, however, I am not sure exactly what I need to do. Is anyone using this scanner with Suse sucessfully using the niash testtool ? If anyone could help me step by step I would appreciate it greatly. The testtool and information come from this link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hp3300backend/.
Any suggestions or help will be appreciated.
Thank you,
Marcia
Hi Marcia, I don't know about this niash patch, but if it is available from source, you possibly might have to compile your own sane using this patch. Make sure that you first got the rpm uninstalled, then install it in /usr (./configure --prefix=/usr) Did you look at the component data base (http://cdb.suse.de) and there: http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html Maybe both not the hottest links, but worth a try for the beginning:-) Cheers .... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@gmx.net Linux ... the better OS!
Well, I have close enough specs that this might help you too. I have 8.1 and HP 5200c via USB. To set it up I did the following: Yast2>scanner and followed the on screen instructions. Pretty simple, selected my hp 5200c from the list of devices, and whatnot. Got to the test part of it and the test failed (actually the test just sat there dumbfounded) but I clicked finish anyway and saved the configuration. Then I editted the /etc/sane.d/hp.conf as follows: /dev/usbscanner option connect-device Then upon running xsane, (on its own and via gimp) it searches for, finds and runs the scanner. hope that helps. -jeric -- JericAtSbcglobalDotNetwork 11:39pm up 18 days, 15:28, 7 users, load average: 1.13, 0.49, 1.01
On Sunday 08 December 2002 23:44, Jeric wrote:
Well, I have close enough specs that this might help you too. I have 8.1 and HP 5200c via USB. To set it up I did the following: Yast2>scanner and followed the on screen instructions. Pretty simple, selected my hp 5200c from the list of devices, and whatnot. Got to the test part of it and the test failed (actually the test just sat there dumbfounded) but I clicked finish anyway and saved the configuration. Then I editted the /etc/sane.d/hp.conf as follows:
/dev/usbscanner option connect-device
Then upon running xsane, (on its own and via gimp) it searches for, finds and runs the scanner.
hope that helps.
-jeric
Dear All, Thank you very much for your help. I have my scanner working! Hurrraayyyyy! Since it is an unsupported scanner I had to use the niash test tool. I decided to try the Mandrake rpms supplied from sourceforge that include the niash testtool. I had to configure a couple of files slightly besides and then all worked beautifully! Xsane works very well and fast with this setup. This testtool supports a few unsupported scanners in case yours is one of them. The link is http://sourceforge.net/projects/hp3300backend/. They have done some wonderful work for these scanners. Thanks for your help. Marcia
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