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Samsung clx-3185 scanning

I just came to possession of this printer which is in very good working condition.

It's a usb only model, so it's connected to my computer by a usb cable.
The printing part works well but I can't get the scanner working.

I've already installed the Samsung provided drivers, made some modifications (suggested on other distributions forums) to the Sane and Udev configs to recognize the usb device. But still Sane says no scanners detected.

I'm still running Slackware 14 and would rather avoid upgrading to 14.1 if possible.

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I've already installed the Samsung provided drivers, made some modifications (suggested on other distributions forums) to the Sane and Udev configs to recognize the usb device. But still Sane says no scanners detected.

The SANE xerox_mfp backend supports a number of similar Samsung models. Based on what I'm reading here, adding the relevant usb chipset details to /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf should be enough. Is that one of the steps you have done already? Can you confirm that you added the required SANE and udev entries correctly?

Did you try the following as regular user and as root (in case we have a permissions issue)?

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sane-find-scanners

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scanimage -L

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Originally Posted by ferrari (Post 5399996)

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sane-find-scanners

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scanimage -L

Yes, tried those.
Added to xerox.conf in sane.d

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#Samsung CLX-3180

usb 0x04e8:0x343d

And tried to modify the 80-libsane.rules in /lib/udev/rules.d but that file is confusing as it has sections for kernel > 2.6.22 and kernel < 2.6.22 and the syntax is different in each section.

But it looks like the udev rules are probably the problem as the printer part works just the scanner part is not getting set up.
sane-find-scanners is simply not finding it.

Create a custom rule (eg /etc/udev/rules.d/50-samsung.rules) with

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# Samsung CLX-3185FW

ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="343d", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner"

Then reattach the scanner. See if that does the trick.

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Originally Posted by Slackovado (Post 5400588)

And tried to modify the 80-libsane.rules in /lib/udev/rules.d but that file is confusing as it has sections for kernel > 2.6.22 and kernel < 2.6.22 and the syntax is different in each section.

Just as an FYI, the udev rules in /lib/udev/rules.d/ are supposed to remain unmodified by users. You *should* use /etc/udev/rules.d/ to add any additional rules or to override the defaults in /lib/udev/rules.d/

Thanks both for the help.
No luck though. Xsane still not finding the scanner.

Can you provide the output of the following commands with the MFP plugged in?

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lsusb -v -d 0x04e8:0x343d

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lsusb -t

Another thought - is this device being attached to a USB 3.0 host controller? That has been known to cause issues with how some hardware is handled. For example, I assisted a user impacted by this in an openSUSE thread.

Let's observe the kernel output when fist attached. Run the following first then attach...

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dmesg --follow

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Originally Posted by ferrari (Post 5401042)

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dmesg --follow

Thank you for your help, much appreciated.
The printer is connected to a usb 2.0 port.
Output of the commands

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lsusb -v -d 0x04e8:0x343d



Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04e8:343d Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd 

Device Descriptor:

  bLength                18

  bDescriptorType        1

  bcdUSB              2.00

  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)

  bDeviceSubClass        0 

  bDeviceProtocol        0 

  bMaxPacketSize0        64

  idVendor          0x04e8 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

  idProduct          0x343d 

  bcdDevice            1.00

  iManufacturer          1 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

  iProduct                2 CLX-3180 Series

  iSerial                3 Z4RNBAIZB00029L

  bNumConfigurations      1

  Configuration Descriptor:

    bLength                9

    bDescriptorType        2

    wTotalLength          55

    bNumInterfaces          2

    bConfigurationValue    1

    iConfiguration          0 

    bmAttributes        0xc0

      Self Powered

    MaxPower                2mA

    Interface Descriptor:

      bLength                9

      bDescriptorType        4

      bInterfaceNumber        0

      bAlternateSetting      0

      bNumEndpoints          2

      bInterfaceClass      255 Vendor Specific Class

      bInterfaceSubClass    255 Vendor Specific Subclass

      bInterfaceProtocol    255 Vendor Specific Protocol

      iInterface              0 

 Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                7

        bDescriptorType        5

        bEndpointAddress    0x03  EP 3 OUT

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type              None

          Usage Type              Data

        wMaxPacketSize    0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              10

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                7

        bDescriptorType        5

        bEndpointAddress    0x84  EP 4 IN

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type              None

          Usage Type              Data

        wMaxPacketSize    0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              10

    Interface Descriptor:

      bLength                9

      bDescriptorType        4

      bInterfaceNumber        1

      bAlternateSetting      0

      bNumEndpoints          2

      bInterfaceClass        7 Printer

      bInterfaceSubClass      1 Printer

      bInterfaceProtocol      2 Bidirectional

      iInterface              0 

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                7

        bDescriptorType        5

        bEndpointAddress    0x01  EP 1 OUT

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type              None

          Usage Type              Data

        wMaxPacketSize    0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              10

      Endpoint Descriptor:

        bLength                7

        bDescriptorType        5

        bEndpointAddress    0x82  EP 2 IN

        bmAttributes            2

          Transfer Type            Bulk

          Synch Type              None

          Usage Type              Data

        wMaxPacketSize    0x0200  1x 512 bytes

        bInterval              10

Device Qualifier (for other device speed):

  bLength                10

  bDescriptorType        6

  bcdUSB              2.00

  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)

  bDeviceSubClass        0 

  bDeviceProtocol        0 

  bMaxPacketSize0        64

  bNumConfigurations      1

Device Status:    0x0001

  Self Powered

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lsusb -t

/:  Bus 08.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M

    |__ Port 2: Dev 11, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M

    |__ Port 2: Dev 11, If 1, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M

    |__ Port 2: Dev 11, If 2, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M

/:  Bus 07.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M

/:  Bus 06.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M

/:  Bus 05.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M

/:  Bus 04.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M

/:  Bus 03.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M

/:  Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci_hcd/6p, 480M

/:  Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci_hcd/6p, 480M

    |__ Port 2: Dev 7, If 0, Class=Vendor Specific Class, Driver=, 480M

    |__ Port 2: Dev 7, If 1, Class=Printer, Driver=usblp, 480M

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dmesg --follow

returned dmesg: unrecognized option '--follow' error so that option is probably not available on my Slackware 14 system.

I'm going to try a few more ideas tomorrow or when I have time and will post my findings.

One question though. Is it practical to upgrade Sane on my Slack 14? Would I have to recompile a lot of packages? I don't use or have any KDE packages installed. I use Xfce for my desktop.

You could use the following instead

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tail -f /var/log/messages

*It may need to be run with root privileges

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grep -B1 "0x04e8 0x343d" /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf

On Slackware 14.0, that returns nothing, whereas, on Slackware-current, it returns

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#Samsung CLX-3180 Series: Samsung CLX 3185
usb 0x04e8 0x343d

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grep -A1 "CLX-3185" /lib/udev/rules.d/80-libsane.rules

On Slackware 14.0, that returns nothing, whereas, on Slackware-current, it returns

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# Samsung CLX-3185
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="343d", MODE="0660", GROUP="lp", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

ferrari's advice in post #4 to create a custom udev rule is correct, but I suggest trying the filename /etc/udev/rules.d/80-libsane.rules and adding the rule shown above.

Note that the device is assigned the "lp" group, so your user will need to be a member of that group to use the device.
Then reboot and try the commands suggested by ferrari in post #2.