Have just "upgraded?" to Mint18 from 17.3 (as a "have to have the latest" person
I just
had to go to 16.04 rather than 14.04 - which is working fine - and with the same 4.4ish kernel
) but to my surprise neither of the scanner apps XSane (a very good app) or Simple Scan will register/detect my wifi EpsonTX-710W's scanner function - both showing "No scanner detected" - yet XSane worked/isworking fine on the identical hardware in 17.3.
Have tried all the usual tricks: turning the printer/scanner off and on again (tedious but necessary in 17.3 when going from "scanning" to "printing"
), rebooting the wifi router/modem, restarting the OS - without any success. Always the same "No scanner detected". But scanning with XSane is still working OK/normally in the 17.3 install!
Yet the printer function itself is working fine in Mint18 - even to the point of now showing the ink levels (which it hasn't ever done before) and allowing the initiation of the head-cleaning process.
So the largest part of the printer/scanner's communication bizzo seems to be working OK - yet for some reason it won't now communicate with the scanner function.
Has there been some change in the networking protocols etc etc between Mints 17.3 and 18 - ie between Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04??
Or would a kernel upgrade help? - that can often seem to change functionality in a rather random fashion
.
TIA
Paul W
AMD FX-4350
Asus M5A97 R2.0 m/b
8G of 1600 RAM - running at only 1184 for some unknown reason - after running the Asus m/b's "Turbo" app
Various SSDs for the OSs + 2or3 TB of whirlygig sdds for storage
Epson TX-710W printer/scanner
