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[gentoo-user] network scanner not seen by xsane on *some* systems

July 06th, 2012 - 08:50 pm ET by Allan Gottlieb | Report spam
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I have one network (a linksys) to which all my devices are attached.

I have two laptops running ~amd64 and one desktop running amd64.
I have one scanner, an hp officejet 7310 that is (wired) ethernet
attached.

When I try xsane from either laptop I receive the popup saying that no
devices are found. From the desktop all is well.

I can print to the 7310 from all three machines.
I can ping the 7310 from all machines.

I would appreciate suggestions for finding the problem.

thanks,
allan
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#1 walt
July 07th, 2012 - 07:40 am ET | Report spam
On 07/06/2012 05:35 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I have one network (a linksys) to which all my devices are attached.

I have two laptops running ~amd64 and one desktop running amd64.
I have one scanner, an hp officejet 7310 that is (wired) ethernet
attached.

When I try xsane from either laptop I receive the popup saying that no
devices are found. From the desktop all is well.

I can print to the 7310 from all three machines.
I can ping the 7310 from all machines.



That's pretty strange, for sure. I assume you have cups and hplip on
all three?

When I use a web browser on localhost:631 I can see two printers on each
machine: hp_LaserJet_3015 and hp_LaserJet_3015_fax. (No 3015_scanner, but
I figure the 'fax' doubles as the scanner.)

Do you have the 'fax' device on your laptops?

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