I am not a coder, but I hope my notes make it easier for others to get this working. Many thanks to Reinhold Kainhofer for both developing this backend, and for pointing me in the right direction for fixing my problem!
HOW-TO: SANE and the Konica Minolta Magicolor 1690MF on Ubuntu *Step 1: Ensure that you have at least version 1.0.22 of sane installed * If you don't know what version of sane you are running, run this command from a terminal: scanuser at sane:~$ scanimage -V > You should see something like this as a result: scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.22; backend version 1.0.22 > (hint: it should already be installed on Ubuntu 11.04 and higher. If it reads 1.0.21, you do not have the magicolor back end, and need to upgrade to a newer version of ubuntu). *Step 2: Enable the Magicolor back end* Edit the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf by running the following command: sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf > Within that file, change the line that reads #magicolor > to magicolor and save the file. Note: if the magicolor line does not have a hash #, you do not need to edit anything. *Step 3: Tell the Magicolor back end where to find the scanner* While sane will try and autodetect the scanner on the network, you will likely need to specify the IP address of the scanner. To do that, open a terminal and run the command: sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/magicolor.conf > After the line that reads net autodiscovery > you need to add a line with the word "net" and IP address of your Magicolor 1690MF scanner. That line should look like this: net 192.168.0.15 > (make sure to change the address to match that of your scanner) Now that you have added the IP address of your scanner, save the file. Next, reboot the machine (devs, can we get sane to reread the changes without restarting the box? If so, what is the command?) After the reboot, open a terminal window and run the command xsane > You should now have a working interface to your Konica Minolta Magicolor 1690MF. --- Steven Santos Director Simply Circus, Inc. 86 Los Angeles Street Newton, MA 02458 P: 617-527-0667 F: 617-934-1870 E: Steven at SimplyCircus.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20120321/c4c94269/attachment.html>
