https://gitlab.com/sane-project/frontends/-/issues/23#note_651214587 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scanner found in terminal and in simplescan, but does not work for xsane in simplescan or gimp, says “unable to connect to scanner” Printing works fine HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M177fw multi-function All functions, including scan, works in windows on same system. Scanner used to work fine a couplethree months ago, went to use it a few days ago, does not work I made no changes except for regular Ubuntu updates. found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x332a [HP Color LaserJet Pro Bus 003 Device 003: ID 03f0:332a Hewlett-Packard roger@roger-desktop:~$ sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x332a [HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M177fw]) at libusb:003:003 roger@roger-desktop:~$ scanimage -L device `hpaio:/usb/HP_Color_LaserJet_Pro_MFP_M177fw?serial=CNG6J1J7WD' is a Hewlett-Packard HP_Color_LaserJet_Pro_MFP_M177fw all-in-one roger@roger-desktop:~$ scanimage -T scanimage: open of device hpaio:/usb/HP_Color_LaserJet_Pro_MFP_M177fw?serial=CNG6J1J7WD failed: Error during device I/O roger@roger-desktop:~$ scanimage -V scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.27; backend version 1.0.27 Attempts at fixing this shown below - no luck roger@roger-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install sane sane-utils libsane-extras xsane [sudo] password for roger: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done xsane is already the newest version (0.999-5ubuntu2). sane-utils is already the newest version (1.0.27-1~experimental3ubuntu2.4). 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Done. roger@roger-desktop:~$ Thanks! changed the description Maintainer Normally, we would recommend trying out of sane-release PPA, but that is unlikely to help in this case because you are using the hpaio backend which comes from HP not the SANE project. It is possible that you got an update from the libsane-hpaio package. I just checked my Linux Mint system here and 3.17.10 seems to be the latest version in the repo. We can offer limited support, but you should realise that the backend you are using is not from this project. Could you try this and give us the output? SANE_DEBUG_HPAIO=250 scanimage -T assigned to @skelband roger@roger-desktop:~$ SANE_DEBUG_HPAIO=250 scanimage -T [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of hpaio to 250. [hpaio] sane_hpaio_init(): scan/sane/hpaio.c 323 [hpaio] sane_hpaio_get_devices(local=0): scan/sane/hpaio.c 342 scanimage: no SANE devices found [hpaio] sane_hpaio_exit(): scan/sane/hpaio.c 336 roger@roger-desktop:~$ -------------------------- pop-up = HPLIP cannot detect devices in your network. This may be due to existing firewall settings blocking the required ports like (5353/udp). When you are in a trusted network environment, you may open the ports for network services like mdns and slp in the firewall. For detailed steps follow the link. http://hplipopensource.com/node/375 ------------------------------------------------- http://hplipopensource.com/node/375 gets "page not found" page on https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/node/375 ----------------------------------- I don't necessarily require this software currently installed, but I simply need a fully functioning scanner. Maintainer OK, consulting the release notes on HP's website, support for your printer/scanner was added on 3.13.11 (https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/release_notes) so it certainly should work. From the instructions, it looks like you would need to run hp-setup to register the device but I see that you already tried that. Sorry, I'm not sure what else to try. I am not very familiar with that backend. You could try this here: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=473291#p473291 Someone else had their printer stop working after an upgrade and reinstalling the HP packages worked for them. Printing works fine, always has Checked the suggested packages in Synaptic, found the last item was missing from hplip, installed that, tried scanning - no result. All other packages were ok. Simplescan says "Unable to connect to scanner" Ran hp-setup - no solution - I note that hp-setup does NOT try to install a scanner, only print and fax. I had several print and fax queues installed, removed all but one of each, test print, it installs another printer in that process, ending in 538144, tried again, same result - but prints ok. Maybe I should remove all (exactly how???) and start over with the best software, HP, SANE project or ???, and again, exactly how??? What is your opinion of the following RE my problem : Downloading and installing sane-airscan and ipp-usb id linked from the main page under Installation from pre-build binaries. HPLIP becomes redundant. WiFi is not necessary to use sane-airscan. AirScan uses the eSCL protocol Thanks!!! Maintainer To try the reinstall option: sudo apt purge hplip hplip-data hplip-gui libhpmud0 libsane-hpaio printer-driver-hpcups sudo apt install hplip hplip-data hplip-gui libhpmud0 libsane-hpaio printer-driver-hpcups For scanning, the important one is libsane-hpaio. As for Airscan, you could certainly try it. sane-airscan is not part of the SANE project, but Alexander Pevsner (the author) is a regular contributor here. https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan It also wouldn't hurt to upgrade to the latest SANE release using our PPA, where sane-escl might help you. It covers some of the same ground as sane-airscan: https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release Same now as before - Simplescan says "unable to connect to scanner" Several warnings during process - see below [sudo] password for roger: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... 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The following packages will be REMOVED: hplip* hplip-data* hplip-gui* libhpmud0* libsane-hpaio* printer-driver-hpcups* printer-driver-postscript-hp* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 17.0 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 731094 files and directories currently installed.) Removing hplip-gui (3.17.10+repack0-5) ... Removing printer-driver-postscript-hp (3.17.10+repack0-5) ... Removing hplip (3.17.10+repack0-5) ... 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Purging configuration files for libsane-hpaio:amd64 (3.17.10+repack0-5) ... dpkg: warning: while removing libsane-hpaio:amd64, directory '/usr/share/hplip/data' not empty so not removed Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.2-1ubuntu1.2) ... roger@roger-desktop:~$ sudo apt install hplip hplip-data hplip-gui libhpmud0 libsane-hpaio printer-driver-hpcups Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... 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Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.2-1ubuntu1.2) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ... roger@roger-desktop:~$ roger@roger-desktop:~$ hplip hplip: command not found roger@roger-desktop:~$ Just a reminder - scanner works fine in Windoze... Maintainer OK, I think that we need to backtrack a little here because in your original post, "scanimage -L" showed that the scanner could be found and "scanimage -T" yielded some kind of comms error, but in your later post to get diag output from that, no devices are found. Was the machine switched on, connected and ready to scan in the second instance? BTW, when posting command output, please put ``` on its own before and after. This will suppress formatting and help readability. Please note that the message just above is after following the suggestion to remove and reinstall - so things may have changed. That's why I posted the entire process Terminal output. You will also notice the <<<-----??? notes after the terminal doesn't find hplip after the remove and reinstall - very confusing to me since it was just supposed to be installed. Thanks! Maintainer Does the hp-setup command find anything? roger@roger-desktop:~$ hp-setup HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.17.10) Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0 Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. Searching... (bus=usb, search=(None), desc=0) Exiting the setup... Done. roger@roger-desktop:~$ Maintainer I assume that you are still connecting the device via USB. Could you show us the output of lsusb? roger@roger-desktop:~$ lsusb Bus 002 Device 003: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 004: ID 051d:0002 American Power Conversion Uninterruptible Power Supply Bus 001 Device 003: ID 057b:0000 Y-E Data, Inc. FlashBuster-U Floppy Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:082c Logitech, Inc. Bus 003 Device 004: ID 03f0:332a Hewlett-Packard Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub roger@roger-desktop:~$ Maintainer Well the model is there but evidently the driver is not finding your model for some reason. I think we have exhausted the assistance I can give here. I can see that the USB ids are listed in the hpaio driver package so it should really be supported. You would probably be best served by talking to the hplip support people here for further help: https://launchpad.net/hplip

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