Canon Multifunction scanner/printer

[poboy975]

ok I have a canon MF6530 multifunction scanner/ printer. I got the printer to work, bownloading some drivers etc... is there a way to get the scanner to work? ubuntu doesnt see it so far as i can tell..

[phidia]

If you have sane installed (which it usually is by default) then open a terminal and enter

sane-find-scanner

The sane site has a search engine for scanner models here.
You can check there to see if your scanner is supported and there will be howtos for getting it working if it is.

The Ubuntu wiki also has some help on scanner set up.