New Kyocera MFP Printer - Help with scanning please

We have a new Kyocera Ecosys M5526 MFP and I want to use it on my TW & Leap systems.
Kyocera offered Linux drivers which work well but I am having trouble with the scanner. Kyocera offered Linux drivers for the scanner and I have installed the rpm but I have not been able to make any connection to the device using Yast2.

I have the machine on a static IP but on a different subnet and can ping it and print from it without problems but no go with scanner. I had no problems with an HP device on the same subnet so I assume the firewall settings are OK but I would appreciate some help please.

Can you post a link to the drivers?

Here is what I had from the website:-
https://www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.co.uk/content/download-center/gb/drivers/all/SANE_Driver_zip.download.zip
https://www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.co.uk/content/download-center/gb/drivers/all/Linux_Universal_Driver_zip.download.zip

The printer works fine but not the SANE driver. I think the problem may be filter related but cannot see what is missing in firewall configuration.

This may help:-

alastair@ibmserv2:~> sudo systemctl status saned.socket
[sudo] password for root: 
● saned.socket - saned incoming socket
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/saned.socket; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (listening) since Fri 2024-08-09 14:02:48 BST; 2min 40s ago
     Listen: [::]:6566 (Stream)
   Accepted: 0; Connected: 0;
      Tasks: 0 (limit: 4915)
     CGroup: /system.slice/saned.socket

Aug 09 14:02:48 ibmserv2 systemd[1]: Listening on saned incoming socket.
alastair@ibmserv2:~> scanimage -L

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
alastair@ibmserv2:~> nmap -p 6566 192.168.105.20
Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-08-09 14:07 BST
Nmap scan report for 192.168.105.20
Host is up (0.00042s latency).

PORT     STATE    SERVICE
6566/tcp filtered sane-port

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.29 seconds
alastair@ibmserv2:~> rpm -qa | grep kyocera-sane
kyocera-sane-2.1-4406.x86_64
alastair@ibmserv2:~> 

Have you read the readme in the unzipped sane driver?

Configuration for Network devices:

I have and have included the line

net 192.168.105.20

in the configuration file.
Running the finder failed but I am not sure what to try next.

Configuration for Network devices:

  1. After installing the Debian package, open the following file in a text editor.
    /etc/sane.d/kyocera_devices.conf

  2. Add the hostname/IP address and model of your device as “ ”.
    E.g.
    PC12345 FS-1135MFP
    192.168.1.100 FS-1135MFP

    You can add more than 1 device to the list (1 device per line).
    Please refer to instructions provided in configuration file for more details.

NOTE: - SU privileges may be required to modify the configuration file.

  • For RPM based OS, might need to configure Firewall settings and change interface to Internal or Trusted Zone to automatically detect devices.

I have tried these earlier but no joy yet. I have now moved to my TW workstation as the office was closing and so have downloaded the driver and SANE packages as before but I have discovered that what worked on the Leap 15.5 machine has thrown up some issues with TW.
When I tried to install the openSUSE driver rpm I get the following message:-

alastair@HP-Z640-1:~/Downloads/KyoceraLinuxPackages-20240521/OpenSUSE/EU/kyodialog_x86_64> rpm -i --install kyodialog-9.4-0.x86_64.rpm 
error: can't create transaction lock on /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission denied)
alastair@HP-Z640-1:~/Downloads/KyoceraLinuxPackages-20240521/OpenSUSE/EU/kyodialog_x86_64> sudo rpm -i --install kyodialog-9.4-0.x86_64.rpm 
[sudo] password for root: 
/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py:66: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated.
!!

        ********************************************************************************
        Please avoid running ``setup.py`` directly.
        Instead, use pypa/build, pypa/installer or other
        standards-based tools.

        See https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html for details.
        ********************************************************************************

!!
  self.initialize_options()
/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py:66: EasyInstallDeprecationWarning: easy_install command is deprecated.
!!

        ********************************************************************************
        Please avoid running ``setup.py`` and ``easy_install``.
        Instead, use pypa/build, pypa/installer or other
        standards-based tools.

        See https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/917 for details.
        ********************************************************************************

!!
  self.initialize_options()
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...

You may need to restart dbus for full functionality.

qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.

I really don’t know what to do with this. I am using X11 at present but could switch to Wayland on this machine if that is needed. Guidance would be appreciated please.

I should add that my problem is I cannot find the necessary Qt package for X11 XCB plugin.

Use zypper for Installation…

And su -l for using root rights.

Many thanks. No problems now with installing the rpm but still working on the CUPS part. Will ask if need more help and many thanks meanwhile.

At the start of the thread you mentioned the issue was getting the scanner functioning. CUPS relates to the printing system.

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