I recently setup in openSUSE-12.1 the network scanner functionality that comes with my HP-C309a all-in-one printer/scanner :
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The first thing I always do is setup this ‘all-in-one-printer/scanner’ as a printer as documented in this previous blog entry: Connecting openSUSE to an HP wireless printer - Blogs - openSUSE Forums I discovered that if I use the ‘hplip’ setup when configuring the print functionality in my ‘all-in-one-printer’, then it is much easier to subsequently setup the scanner functionality in the same device.
So with the printer configured, I then go to YaST > Hardware Scanner and select scanner
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YaST then starts searching for a connected active scanner, which also includes looking at any configured printer to see if it also has a scanning capability.
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In my case, it detects my HP C309a Network scanner. But note it is NOT CONFIGURED.
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So I then select EDIT to configure this scanner. Note if there was no Scanner Detected, I would have had to select ‘Other’ (right corner of above image) to detect/configure the network scanner.
… continued in next post …