Re: scanning in GNU Guix

[gfp]

Hi Lukas,

thanks very much for looking into that.

Please inform me, when we are going to get there.

It is always a nuisance, when I need a scan,
I have to start GNUinOS, which I have installed approx. 2 years ago,
scan something and then to restart my laptop with Guix to continue working.

I tried to install Trisquel in a VM,
but I am not able to change the Samba configuration
so that it works
that I can scann in Trisquel and save the scan in my Guix home folder.

At the moment there is only one solution not to restart my laptop:

so that I can use the usb device in Guix and start Trisquel next time.


I am wondering why it works that way.

Thanks

Gottfried


Am 04.04.25 um 00:24 schrieb Lukas Gradl:

to scan in Trisquel in adding my printer and a usb device, save my scan on the usb device, after scanning remove my printer and the usb device If I don´t remove my printer and the usb device every time after using it, I can´t start Trisquel in the VM. Then I need to have the printer and the usb device connected to my laptop which is not a good option.

Hello Gottfried,

gfp <g...@posteo.at> writes:

I had the same issue with my HP printer.  Am I guessing correctly that
your printer is connected through the network, not USB?

My printer is connected with USB to my laptop.

Is than all you have written valid for me also?

The USB case is probably different.  For testing, I connected my printer
via USB and experimented a bit with it.  With `lsusb' I can see the
printer, but the hp-setup utility can not find the printer at all, even
if I put the Bus and Device number into hp-setup manually.  My guess is
there is a problem with the USB support in our hplip package.

My understanding (but i may be wrong) is that the HP drivers from the
hplip package are needed to be able to both print and scan - to only get
printing to work, a generic driver may suffice.  I'll try to look into
the USB support of our hplip package, if/when there is time.

I agree with you that printing and scanning should just work -
we are not there yet but we will get there eventually 🙂

Best,
Lukas

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