On 1 October 2012 11:41, David Goldsbrough <da...@boavon.plus.com> wrote:
> I have recently purchased a Canon Pixma MG5350 wireless all-in-one > printer/scanner/copier. > > It has been set-up without the aid of any usb cable tethering it to any > device. Our household is a mixed environment with a combination of Windoze > Vista, Mac OS X, iPad, Windoze XP, Ubuntu, etc. > > The printing function from all devices (bar the Mac - but a different > story) has not proved to be a problem. > I am though having difficulties getting Simple Scan or Xsane Image Scanner > working. Both report "No scanners detected". > > I have though managed to get Scangear to work which I downloaded and > installed from Canon when Xsane and Simple Scan was not working. > > I have searched around and gone down a number of blind alleys. This > includes editing files in /etc/sane.d > > I am running Lucid 10.04 and linix kernal 2.6.32-43-generic. > > I guess this may really not be worth the bother to fix/solve - after all I > do have Scangear working and I have a multitude of other devices to choose > from - but it is the principal at stake really. There is also the issue > that Ubuntu future should work out of the box for such things. > > Many thanks in advance for any pointers or help that might solve the > problem. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > I have come across this problem a couple of times with Canon scanners normally when Xsane was updated, I found that going back one or two versions of Xsane got the scanner working again and of course not updating it when prompted. hope this help[s. George
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