[ubuntu-za] Scanners in general and Canon K10339 in particular.

Sat Jul 12 09:03:34 UTC 2014

I did a reboot to make sure nobody else was using the device - same story.
:-(

On 11 July 2014 20:51, William Walter Kinghorn <williamk at dut.ac.za> wrote:

>  Hi Bill,
>
> possibly, some other app is holding onto that device
>
> Try adding the repo
>
> # Canon LBP drivers - Ubuntu - PPA
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/michael-gruz/canon-trunk/ubuntu trusty main
>
> add that to your sources.list file ( /etc/apt/sources.list ) must be root
> user
> open a termainal, then type in the terminal : sudo gedit
> /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> add the 2 lines above at end of file, then save file, exit out of gedit
>
> open synaptic or Ubuntu software center, search for canon 250
>
> See which you think you need to install
>
> Once installed, try xsane again
>
> hope this helps
> William
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [
> ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] on behalf of Bill Cairns [
> cairnsww at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 11 July 2014 17:12
>
> *To:* Ubuntu South African Local Community
> *Subject:* Re: [ubuntu-za] Scanners in general and Canon K10339 in
> particular.
>
>   THanks William.
>
> xsane spends a lot of time looking at the scanner and then tells me:
>
>  Failed to open device 'epkowa:interpreter:003:006 Device busy
>
>
> On 10 July 2014 23:53, William Walter Kinghorn <williamk at dut.ac.za> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Bill,
>>
>> Don't have a
>>
>> I use xsane, which is in the repos
>>
>> I also install libsane-extras
>>
>> make sure that libsane is installed ( I think it is a xsane dependancy )
>>
>> try adding this repo to sources.list ( I think there are printer and
>> scanner drivers )
>>
>> # Canon LBP drivers - Ubuntu - PPA
>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/michael-gruz/canon-trunk/ubuntu trusty main
>>
>> William
>>
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> *From:* ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [
>> ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] on behalf of Tim Johnson [
>> Tim at cybersmart.co.za]
>> *Sent:* 10 July 2014 20:18
>> *To:* Ubuntu South African Local Community; Bill Cairns
>> *Subject:* Re: [ubuntu-za] Scanners in general and Canon K10339 in
>> particular.
>>
>>    Here you go. My daughter had the same issue.
>> http://support-au.canon.com.au/P/search?model=PIXMA+MP250&menu=download&filter=0&tagname=g_os&g_os=Linux
>> Cheers
>>
>> Sent from my Note 2
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>> On 10 July 2014 7:51:37 PM Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have found refrences on the web to
>>> esci-interpreter-gt-f720_0.0.1-2_amd64.deb and a suggestion that it should
>>> be included too. The trouble is that
>>> esci-interpreter-gt-f720_0.0.1-2_amd64.deb is not on the download site and
>>> does not seem available anywhere that I can find ...
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10 July 2014 14:38, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>     I find myself swimming in water that is far deeper than my toes
>>>> can reach the bottom ...
>>>>
>>>>  A friend, who is pretty computer literate and who has been pure MS
>>>> Windows for years, has been forcibly converted to Ubuntu 14.04. Not by me -
>>>> I am not that brash although I admire his method of evangelism - but by her
>>>> Geek adviser (who is now, unfortunately, sick and unable to help). She is
>>>> pretty happy with everything except for the fact that she can't use the
>>>> scanner in her all-in-one Canon MP250. (Actually that is my first problem -
>>>> the printer is a MP250 but the scanner might be a K10339. At times they
>>>> seem to have different model numbers).
>>>>
>>>>  I had a quick look at her system and sure enough when I tried iscan,
>>>> it simply said "No devices" or some such disdainful message implying that I
>>>> should connect a scanner before presuming to scan. The scanner was on and
>>>> connected and the printer works. I had a quick look at the Internet from
>>>> her computer but could not find what looked like the right driver anywhere.
>>>> In fact Canon seems to go out of its way to prevent you finding drivers.
>>>>
>>>>  She has a dual boot system and I loaded Windows 7, but the Fax / Scan
>>>> program could not find the scanner either. I don't think that there is a
>>>> problem with the scanner though - she said it worked recently and :-
>>>>
>>>>  I don't have a Canon scanner of my own but I do have an Epson V350
>>>> which works fine on Windows XP,  7 and Windows 8 but I have never tried
>>>> connecting it to Linux. When I got home, I connected it up and tried to get
>>>> it going.
>>>>
>>>>  At first, I got the same message as I had been getting with the Canon
>>>> - No device connected. This time though I was able to find what I think are
>>>> the right drivers (iscan_2.29.3-1~usb0.1.ltdl7_amd64.deb and
>>>> iscan-data_1.29.0-2_all.deb from
>>>> http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/02/DriverDownloadInfo.do?LG2=EN&CN2=&DSCMI=28880&DSCCHK=ec6ec9b0ae7d86aeadf2c0b88252dbe4149a9831).
>>>> Now I have made a great advance - iscan seems to find the device quite
>>>> happily although the bad news is that I can't actually persuade it to do a
>>>> scan. (This is all an academic exercise in that I don't need a scanner on
>>>> this Linux machine ... I am just trying to understand things a bit better).
>>>>
>>>>  I would appreciate any advice you might be able to give me. I don't
>>>> want the nice lady to throw up her hands and say that she prefers Windows!
>>>>
>>>>  Bill
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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