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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/10/12 12:16, George MacLeod
wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 October 2012 11:41, David
Goldsbrough <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:daveg@boavon.plus.com" target="_blank">daveg@boavon.plus.com</a>></span>
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I have recently purchased a Canon Pixma MG5350 wireless
all-in-one printer/scanner/copier.
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>The printing function from all devices (bar the Mac - but
a different story) has not proved to be a problem.</div>
<div>I am though having difficulties getting Simple Scan or
Xsane Image Scanner working. Both report "No scanners
detected".</div>
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<div>I have though managed to get Scangear to work which I
downloaded and installed from Canon when Xsane and Simple
Scan was not working.</div>
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<div>I have searched around and gone down a number of blind
alleys. This includes editing files in /etc/sane.d</div>
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<div>I am running Lucid 10.04 and linix kernal
2.6.32-43-generic.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Many thanks in advance for any pointers or help that
might solve the problem.</div>
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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.</blockquote>
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Of course the other possibility is that because you are running
10.04 which is 2 years old, Xsane may have been updated to support
your scanner since then. Note that as there is a discussion on that
same exact scanner for Kubuntu 12.04 [1], it is very likely that
this hasn't worked before because the developers never had access to
that hardware.<br>
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If you want to help, the best way to do this would be to file a bug
with details of your scanner. As you have Windows machines that work
with it, you could even try to get a snoop of Scangear when it sends
and receives requests from the scanner. The sane-devel mailing list
or the IRC channel [2] are the places to ask for help on doing that.<br>
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[1]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2012-August/030181.html">http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2012-August/030181.html</a><br>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sane-project.org/mailing-lists.html">http://www.sane-project.org/mailing-lists.html</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Bruno<br>
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