Re: Scanner works!

2023-10-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2023-10-15 at 12:28 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/15/2023 12:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >     Use 'sudo avahi-browse -a -t' to check that > >     printer, scanner etc. are all visible. Use > >     DNS-SD (Avahi) versions of drivers. > > If you don't need it very often, you're bes

Re: Scanner works!

2023-10-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/15/2023 12:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Use 'sudo avahi-browse -a -t' to check that printer, scanner etc. are all visible. Use DNS-SD (Avahi) versions of drivers. If you don't need it very often, you're best off making it into a shell script so that you don't need to wor

Re: Scanner works!

2023-10-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2023-10-15 at 11:02 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I found I have to wake the scanner up before trying to connect to it > over the network. I don't know if the scanner responds to the magic > wakeup packet. Very occasionally my Brother all-in-one needs to be prodded with an avahi command.

Re: Scanner works!

2023-10-15 Thread Joe Benson
I've had two Brother printers/scanners, currently a MFC-7820N, and never had any issues running them under Fedora. Brother Linux support has been great. I'm using Xsane for the scanner. On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 7:55 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > In the past I have had near infinite trouble getting scan

Re: Scanner works!

2023-10-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 9:55 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > > In the past I have had near infinite trouble getting scanners > compatible with linux, but I just replaced a dead Epson multi-function > device that I only ever used as a scanner with a Canoscan LIDE 300 > and was shocked and amazed when it ju

Scanner works!

2023-10-15 Thread Tom Horsley
In the past I have had near infinite trouble getting scanners compatible with linux, but I just replaced a dead Epson multi-function device that I only ever used as a scanner with a Canoscan LIDE 300 and was shocked and amazed when it just worked out of the box. P.S. The epson isn't quite as bad a