I have no idea why its doing that, Im sorry it usually works for me, maybe its something in the connection or the driver? What make / model is your scanner and how is it connected via Ethernet or USB? Stuart On Tuesday 15 Feb 2011 19:11:31 you wrote:

When I run XSane it goes off searching for scanners for over 10 minutes now. Seems to be a roge process since it is not reponding anymore.

Bruce.

On Tuesday 15 February 2011 13:11:50 you wrote:

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Usually I just plug in the usb scanner fire up xsane and it works don't recall using that yast scanner wizard.

Stuart Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone

-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Samhaber <bruce.samhaber@samhaber.ca> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:38:55 To: oS-en<opensuse@opensuse.org> Reply-To: bruce.samhaber@samhaber.ca Subject: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 11.3 YaST scanimage -L not responding

Hi

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?

Thank you, Bruce.

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