Epson Artisan 810 scanner

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#1

I have installed the drivers for the scanner on my all in one Epson 810. The software manager shows it as installed but when I try to add the scanner it can’t find it.
I have installed iscan-free with epkowa drivers . The printing woks fine. How do I get it to recognize my scanner?

#2

Some diagnostic steps you can check:

1)With scanner plugged in open terminal console and run

 scanimage -L

or

sane-find-scanner

Run these as regular user first, then become root (if necessary) with

su -

and run the commands again. Note what is reported. Any different?

  1. Is the relevant user a member of the ‘lp’ group? (Probably is, since you report printing is working).
groups

If not, you can adjust with

useradd -G lp <username>

3) Check that /etc/sane.d/dll.conf contains an unmarked entry 'epkowa', and that it is unmarked (no '#' character)
You'll need root privileges to edit this file (if necessary) eg

kdesu kwrite /etc/sane.d/dll.conf

#3

Niether scanimage or sane-find-scanner show a scanner. It is a wireless network printer. This printer worked before on Opensuse 11.4. I had no problem installing it. But I had a disk problem and I had to reinstall. The printing works fine. I installed the AVASYS drivers I don’t know if I am missing something.

#4

Niether scanimage or sane-find-scanner show a scanner. It is a wireless network printer.

You should have mentioned this in your first post.

Follow the instructions given here

How do I set up and use the network plugin to scan via the network? | FAQ[Linux driver] | AVASYS CORPORATION

Install the required Avasys scanner packages

iscan-network-nt
iscan-data
iscan

Follow the instruction given in the installation pdf

http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/spc/DL2.do

You will need to edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf to include these entries

net
epkowa

Then edit /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf to include your scanner’s IP address (eg 192.168.2.3)

net 192.168.2.3

When done, start iscan (as regular user). Your scanner should now be detected.

#5

Had wrong iscan. After changing the conf files it now works. Thanks. One last question. My network assigns ip’s dynamiclly. Should I make my scanner hace a static ip since I had to enter the ip in epkiowa.conf?

#6

One last question. My network assigns ip’s dynamiclly. Should I make my scanner hace a static ip since I had to enter the ip in epkiowa.conf?

Yes you should. (Normal practice for printers and similar hardware devices on a network).