Scanner no longer works with my AMD PC

Lee Gold leegold at operamail.com
Fri Aug 19 20:29:31 UTC 2016


Do you have the firewall enabled?

$ sudo ufw status

will tell you. 

Just a possibility...
  

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016, at 10:20 AM, David Fletcher wrote:
> Yes I know that I first posted this thread several months ago, but I
> now have not exactly a solution, but a workaround, which has allowed me
> to use my scanner again.
> 
> My conclusion that somebody has screwed up the SANE drivers for non-
> Intel USB hardware, stands, i.e. I still cannot run the scanner when
> plugged into my AMD desktop computer.
> 
> My workaround is to instead plug my scanner into my server, which has
> an Atom chip. Doing a little Google searching, I found some how-tos
> detailing how to set up networked scanning. It wasn't difficult to do.
> I can now scan, exactly as I did before, using my AMD desktop or,
> should I choose, my little 10" Toshiba netbook via the WiFi.
> 
> Maybe somebody else has a scanner which no longer works with an AMD
> computer? Could something cheaper than my server get it working again?
> It would be interesting to know.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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