Installing HP flatbed scanner Scanjet 3200C
 

Hi!

Just found out that my old parallel port scanner will work with Linux (SANE told me so...). Since I have a laptop hp compaq nx9010 (Ubuntu 10.10) equipped with a parallel port I thought maybe I could take that into use. Question is: How? And do I have to have a printer connected to the scanner too?
Thankful for any advice, I am quite a newbie...

Thorben

The first thing I would do is see whether HPLIP will detect it. I think Ubuntu includes it by default. If it's not in your menu, you could try starting the hplip gui with hp-toolbox in a terminal.

If you don't have it, it's in the repos.

HPLIP: http://hplipopensource.com/

HPLip did not find it. I got the general impression that HPLip is only for printers??? Have to find some other way. All the same, SANE says it will work, just have to get it installed, somehow.

Not with HPLIP...

You can first try to obtain the necessary SANE packages from your Ubuntu repositories. In addition, if you click on the links for the scanner on the SANE webpage, there is the source code for the umax_pp backend for this scanner and a manual for how to proceed.

http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sa...EWLETT-PACKARD

OK

Set my parallel port to EPP in BIOS. After that tried to get the backend configuration file by writing /etc/sane.d/umax_pp.conf in a terminal, but it keeps telling me I have no access, so what now. Please bear in mind that I am a newbie and need to be guided in detail. By the way, how can I find out that I have a kernel with ppdev support, or not?

Frankly, I'm not sure. My printer is one of those all-in-one thingees and HPLIP detects the scanner and fax portions as well as the printer, but it could be because they are attached to a printer.

I'm going to keep following this thread because I want to see how it turns out.

You should also check in /etc/group to see if you're included in printer & scanner group

Trying /etc/group results in a blunt "no access", so here we are, like banging your head against a concrete wall. By the way, my desktop computer is attached to a HP one-in-all and that is working all right, but I still keep wondering if this flatbed shold be attached to a printer as it once was when I had it active in those old pre-historic Windows days...

nano /etc/group
or sudo nano /etc/group

HPLIP...

HPLIP supports the scanner function of a HP all-in-one machine, but not a scanner installed by itself.

sudo nano/etc/group gives me "command not found"
nano/etc/group gives me "no such directory"
Back to square one...

There is a space after nano
nano /etc/group
sudo nano /etc/group

This tell you anything?


root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
bin:x:2:
sys:x:3:
adm:x:4:tor-bjorn
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:
lp:x:7:
mail:x:8:
news:x:9:
uucp:x:10:
man:x:12:
proxy:x:13:
kmem:x:15:
dialout:x:20:tor-bjorn
fax:x:21:tor-bjorn
voice:x:22:
cdrom:x:24:tor-bjorn
floppy:x:25:tor-bjorn

Have you checked dmesg to see if detected?
In this thread they got working.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=437004

I don't have a scanner but have a scanner group take a look at these 2 images preferably users & groups Advanced settings under user priviledges check scanner group box.

Trying to get the SANE backends list but can't do it. I know from some earlier time that uncommenting the right place could solve it but that bloody list, where is it? Downloaded sane-backends-1.0.22.tar.gz, untarred it, did make but did not do make install, (was that a mistake?), what now?