vchapman
March 18th, 2010, 05:11 PM
I have a Canon MP250 printer / scaner. Thanks to some help here I manage to get a Linux driver for the printer side from a Canon site in Australia.
Now I would like to capture images using Xsane. When I start up Xsane, it doesn't see the scanner.
sudo sane-find-scanner -p
# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
# result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
# scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
# you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x173a [MP250 series]) at libusb:001:005
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
# No Mustek parallel port scanners found. If you expected something
# different, make sure the scanner is correctly connected to your computer
# and you have apropriate access rights.
# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
# can't be detected by this program.
So you can see that there is a scanner on the usb port.
What do I need to do to make the connection.
TIA
Now I would like to capture images using Xsane. When I start up Xsane, it doesn't see the scanner.
sudo sane-find-scanner -p
# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
# result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
# scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
# you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x173a [MP250 series]) at libusb:001:005
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
# No Mustek parallel port scanners found. If you expected something
# different, make sure the scanner is correctly connected to your computer
# and you have apropriate access rights.
# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
# can't be detected by this program.
So you can see that there is a scanner on the usb port.
What do I need to do to make the connection.
TIA