About ten days ago, I bought multifunctional printer Canon I-sensys MF4430. I did it after I saw there are linux drivers - rpm drivers. But, unfortunately, after buying and installing these package, I saw that drvers given on “Canon” download page are just for printer to work. And it works. But, scanner do not work! Can anybody tell me how to enable scanner which can not be recognized by opensuse 11.4 YaST?
Actually this happens: when I click YaST(root password)/Hardware/Scanner autodetection does not recognize scanner. After I click Other -> Restart detection , system recognizes my scanner, but says that drivers are not configured. They are missing.
So, please help me find drivers to make scanner on my MF printer works.
Other Canon device owners may be able to offer more accurate device here, but in leiu of that, I’ll make a start. Now, searching Canon’s website for scanner drivers for your model did not yield results for me (but maybe I missed something). The best place to check out potential scanner support (via SANE) is here:
The closest supported model I could find to yours was the MF4330. This is supported by the ‘sane-pixma’ driver, so that may be suitable for your scanner model too. Sometimes, a particular driver may work for similar models other than those listed, so can be worth a try. BTW, in order to print and scan, the relevant user must be part of the ‘lp’ group.
With your multifunction hardware connected, try to detect the scanner device (chipset) with
After a brief search, I also stumbled across this Debian bug report dealing with the same model. Your detection experience will almost certainly match this user, but don’t give up. You could try to contact Nicolas Martin (SANE developer) for any progress with this. I would suggest you search for any existing bug reports (concerning the same model) and add to it, or create a new one if necessary: