HP Officejet 6500 not auto detected by xsane - scanimage with device URL works

[phil1982]

Dear all,

I'm trying to scan something with xsane but i'm unable to do so:
Problem is that i'm unable to detect my wifi network scanner with scanimage -L or when invoking xsane or simple scan.
As i'm usually scanning from a shell script for which i recorderd the scan URL i'm still able to scan if i tell scanimage the device URL. For xsane however i can't do that. sane-find-scanner doesn't find scanners either. This seems to be since i upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04

So to summarize

• My goal is to use xsane.
• This fails as xsane is not detcting any devices (as does scanimage -L) after launched
• invoking scaneimage with device on the cli works (e.g. scanimage -d hpaio:/net/Officejet_6500_E710n-z?zc=HPE87D94 > test1.jpg works fine)
• my scanner is an HP Officejet 6500 E710n-z all in one mfd
• in 16.04 things were fine. In 18.04 where i'm now it's not

Things i already tried were:

• invoke xsane with sudo
• purge / reinstall libsane and sane-utils
• sane-find-scanner doesn't find the scanner either. Hence the tutorial https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SA...0auto-detected doesn'T work either

Any Ideas?

Best Regards
Philipp

[Autodave]

Upgrading can often cause such problems and is why I don't do it anymore: I do clean installs. Have you installed hplip yet? You may have to do that to get the scanner portion recognized.

Just a heads up for you and others: when I wiped 16.04 and did a clean install of 18.04, my wireless HP laser scanner/printer was turned on. The installer found it and installed EVERYTHING without me having to do a thing.