<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 October 2012 11:41, David Goldsbrough <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daveg@boavon.plus.com" target="_blank">daveg@boavon.plus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have recently purchased a Canon Pixma MG5350 wireless all-in-one printer/scanner/copier.<div><br></div><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>
<div><br></div><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>
<div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>I have searched around and gone down a number of blind alleys. This includes editing files in /etc/sane.d</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am running Lucid 10.04 and linix kernal 2.6.32-43-generic.</div><div><br></div><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>
<div><br></div><div>Many thanks in advance for any pointers or help that might solve the problem.</div>
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<br></blockquote></div>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.<div>
<br></div><div>hope this help[s.</div><div>George</div>