Greetings Alex,
I am not an Sane expert, but what happens in your case, I believe, is that Sane automatically detects your scanner, regardless of your printer settings. I bet that if you tried your scanner before adding your printer, it would have worked. I am using Ubuntu 16.04. Best regards, Hans Deragon On 2017-11-27 14:50, Alex ARNAUD wrote: > Le 26/11/2017 à 14:28, Hans Deragon a écrit : > >> Greetings, I have an HP OfficeJet Pro 6978 MFC. I have two Linux computers >> at home, a desktop and a laptop. Both are able to print to it, no problem. I >> configured the desktop with hp-setup from hplip, using the USB cable. That >> configures the device to use the wifi. Once configured, I disconnected the >> USB cable and that desktop computer is able to use the scanner, no problem. >> I have another laptop, which I just want to connect to the same scanner. I >> do not want to set the scanner up again, since it is already configured. I >> just want to tell Sane that there is a scanner at address 192.168.1.157. >> Sane fails to detect it, and I have no clue how to add it using a GUI nor a >> terminal for that matter. The should be a GUI feature that allows me to add >> a scanner the same way one can add a printer. > > OK, after checking what I do every time when configuring network > multifunction HP devices I've only used system-config-printer without > doing any manual configuration from command-line or from sane. > > Which distribution are you using ? Are you using Ubuntu 17.10 ? > > Best regards.
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