Epson Scanner - Problem installing software...

[alesh]

Tried, and it doesn't. I'm still stuck running the scanner from a Win2K VM.

Are you sure? Did you try adding the scanner's usb vendor and product ids to /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf and scanning as root?
Scanning as root when testing this out will avoid any possible permissions problems. Note that the iscan frontend won't work with the snapscan backend so you need to try scanning with scanimage or XSane or some other general purpose SANE frontend.

[Wildman]

Thanks Alesh, Yes I am aware they pulled the driver for the printer. But old me I don't give up easy! The CX5800 was a problem for Epson. Not OS related, usb communications seemed to be the problem.

This link lists the scanner support. also I'd try the CX5000 print driver!  


http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/spc/DL1.do

[alesh]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I've been talking about the scanner driver *ONLY*. I don't know anything about the printer drivers. I do know that installing the Linux printer driver will not give you scanning capabilities. Only Image Scan! for Linux (iscan) does that, and unfortunately, iscan does not support the CX5800F.

[Wildman]

Ok, but what's this for? (not being a wise a$$ here) scroll down to last listed driver. Is this the one that doesn't work? 
It even lists PClinuxOS as one of the OS selections. (Cool)  Thanks for the all your help, and you was clear, I just read it wrong,
sorry, I have "Ole Timers" condition sometimes! 


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

[Wildman]

O-P have you considered replacing the CX5800f with a newer one? If so would it be a Epson? 

[Old-Polack]

Tried, and it doesn't. I'm still stuck running the scanner from a Win2K VM.

Are you sure? Did you try adding the scanner's usb vendor and product ids to /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf and scanning as root?
Scanning as root when testing this out will avoid any possible permissions problems. Note that the iscan frontend won't work with the snapscan backend so you need to try scanning with scanimage or XSane or some other general purpose SANE frontend.

Yes I'm sure.

[root@littleboy ~]# cat /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf

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#------------------------------ General -----------------------------------

# Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if
# firmware upload is needed by the scanner
firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/your-firmwarefile.bin

# If not automatically found you may manually specify a device name.

# For USB scanners also specify bus=usb, e.g.
# /dev/usb/scanner0 bus=usb

# For SCSI scanners specify the generic device, e.g. /dev/sg0 on Linux.
# /dev/sg0

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# No changes should be necessary below this line
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------

#-------------------------- SCSI scanners ----------------------------------
# These SCSI devices will be probed automatically
scsi AGFA * Scanner
scsi COLOR * Scanner
scsi Color * Scanner
scsi ACERPERI * Scanner

#--------------------------- USB scanners -----------------------------------
# These USB devices will be probed automatically
# (This will currently work only on Linux)
-------------------------------------------
snipped
-------------------------------------------
# Agfa Snapscan e52
usb 0x06bd 0x20fd

# Epson Perfection 660
usb 0x04b8 0x0114

# Epson Perfection 1670
usb 0x04b8 0x011f

# Epson Perfection 2480
usb 0x04b8 0x0121

# Epson Perfection 3490
usb 0x04b8 0x0122

# Epson Stylus CX-1500
usb 0x04b8 0x080c

# Epson Stylus CX-5800F        <-- My scanner
usb 0x04b8 0x0821









[root@littleboy ~]# xscanimage





And 10 minutes after clicking the OK button, and having that window disappear;



Only after entering, in a new tab;



do I finally arrive at this.

[Old-Polack]

O-P have you considered replacing the CX5800f with a newer one? If so would it be a Epson? 

Until such time as I receive the properly working driver for this scanner, which I was promised would be ready "in a couple of days" before I actually made the purchase, I will buy nothing that bears the name Epson anywhere on it. I think it's safe to say Epson is on my permanent blacklist.

I will also tell my gruesome little tale to anyone looking for recommendations for an all in one unit, and suggest they buy HP. In 30 years of running my own companies, I never failed to deliver on a promise I made to a customer, and what I delivered always exceeded their specifications, no matter what it cost to achieve this. I expect no less from promises made to me.

[Wildman]

O-P have you considered replacing the CX5800f with a newer one? If so would it be a Epson? 

Until such time as I receive the properly working driver for this scanner, which I was promised would be ready "in a couple of days" before I actually made the purchase, I will buy nothing that bears the name Epson anywhere on it. I think it's safe to say Epson is on my permanent blacklist.

I will also tell my gruesome little tale to anyone looking for recommendations for an all in one unit, and suggest they buy HP. In 30 years of running my own companies, I never failed to deliver on a promise I made to a customer, and what I delivered always exceeded their specifications, no matter what it cost to achieve this. I expect no less from promises made to me.

Fair enough.

[longtom]

I bought Epson once many years back and it was a flop - and I am talkig windows.

Than I had to buy again 3 years ago for sublimation printing.  Boy did it suck - technically - and thirsty to boot.  Luckily I found something else in the meantime to do my sublimation printing - the Epsons have been shoved into the furthest corner.

So never mind the drivers - Epson was on my blacklist all along .... 

[Wildman]

I like Epson, been using the inkjets since the ESC/PS2 series. 

[longtom]

I like Epson, been using the inkjets since the ESC/PS2 series. 

Looking at your avatar I am not surprised .... muahahaha ... 

[Wildman]

    yeah kin to O-P 

[zorlac]

Alesh - Thanks for the tips. I just got the Workforce 610 last on Monday and now have the wireless scanning working following your instructions. At first I had problems with XSane, but Image Scan! worked fine. XSane failed with a "Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument.". I checked the dll.conf file and the epson and epson2 devices were commented out. I enabled epson2 and now both Image Scan! and XSane work great. Also, after removing saned from the command line, I got errors when running Synaptic, I reinstalled saned after everything was working and it did not cause any problems.

I just bought an Epson Workforce 630 for $80 and it prints OK wirelessly with the Workforce 615 driver in CUPS after configuring it as a network printer with an IP address.

Just to clarify what Jeephacker was talking about after poking around on the Avasys site and exactly what I did (FWIW   ) I'm posting some text here.
Even with the errors I received, I'm able to scan wirelessly with the Avasys iscan software or xsane.
I did reinstall saned with Synaptic when it complained it was broken and all seems well for now.
I'm just happy I could follow a simple 30 step procedure!  

From the Avasys site:

To set up your device for scanning via its network interface, follow the steps outlined below:

   1. Download and install the latest version of Image Scan! for Linux from here.
   2. If your device has a supported network interface, the iscan-network-nt plugin will also be available for download. Download and install the version appropriate for your system.
   3. Now configure your device for network access. You need to set or obtain the IP address of the device. Please consult the product manual for details on how to do this.
   4. Configure Image Scan! for Linux to connect to your device by editing /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf. You need administrative privileges to do so. Read the instructions in the file about network configuration and add an entry for your device as indicated.
   5. Finally, disable the conflicting epson2 SANE backend. You can do so by changing the line consisting of "epson2" to "#epson2" in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. This will require administrative privileges.

My actual install below.

[root@localhost Epson_Printer]# dir

iscan-2.26.1-3.ltdl7.i386.rpm
iscan-data-1.6.0-0.noarch.rpm
iscan-network-nt-1.1.0-2.i386.rpm

[root@localhost Epson_Printer]# rpm -ivh iscan-data-1.6.0-0.noarch.rpm iscan-2.26.1-3.ltdl7.i386.rpm
error: failed to stat /home/me/.gvfs: Permission denied
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:iscan-data             ########################################### [ 50%]
Failed to setup automatic scanner configuration via HAL.
If you have trouble accessing your scanner as a regular user, please
install xsltproc and run "/usr/lib/iscan-data/make-policy-file --mode fdi"
to enable this feature.
   2:iscan                  ########################################### [100%]
[root@localhost Epson_Printer]# rpm -ivh iscan-data-1.6.0-0.noarch.rpm iscan-2.26.1-3.ltdl7.i386.rpm
error: failed to stat /home/me/.gvfs: Permission denied
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        package iscan-data-1.6.0-0 is already installed
        package iscan-2.26.1-3.ltdl7 is already installed

[root@localhost Epson_Printer]# rpm -ivh iscan-network-nt-1.1.0-2.i386.rpm
error: failed to stat /home/me/.gvfs: Permission denied
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:iscan-network-nt       ########################################### [100%]
[root@localhost Epson_Printer]# rpm -e sane-backends-iscan
error: package sane-backends-iscan is not installed
[root@localhost Epson_Printer]# rpm -ev --nodeps saned
\error: failed to stat /home/me/.gvfs: Permission denied
warning: /etc/xinetd.d/saned saved as /etc/xinetd.d/saned.rpmsave
[root@localhost Epson_Printer]# rpm -ev --nodeps saned
error: package saned is not installed
[root@localhost Epson_Printer]# rpm -ivh iscan-network-nt-1.1.0-2.i386.rpm
error: failed to stat /home/me/.gvfs: Permission denied
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        package iscan-network-nt-1.1.0-2 is already installed
[root@localhost Epson_Printer]#