HP F4440 (xsane cannot find device)

[dawnsboy]

I have a copy of VL 6.0 light installed a mini pc with an Intel board featuring a 1.2GHz Intel Celeron 220.  I have been quite successful setting up CUPS to print to this printer.  However xsane reports device not found.  I used the f4213 ppd with the default install of hplip initially.  I upgraded to the 3.9.6 version via gslapt.  I added the ppd file from the f4400 series.  Prints quite well but still xsane cannot find a device.

I removed hplip altogether and manually deleted newly created directories.  I then downloaded and compiled hplip 3.9.6 with scan support enabled.  I setup the printer in CUPS with the f4400 series ppd.  Test prints wonderfully but xsane still reports no device found.

How do I get the scanner working on VL?  What have I overlooked?

[stretchedthin]

Do you get the same result when you start up the hp device manager and choose the 'Action' tab then start up scanning?

[dawnsboy]

Do you get the same result when you start up the hp device manager and choose the 'Action' tab then start up scanning?

Yes.   Thank you for responding.

[GrannyGeek]

Have you done su to root and typed
sane-find-scanner
at a terminal prompt? I don't think xsane will find your scanner if sane-find-scanner can't find it. If the scanner is found, note how it is seen as /dev. You may have to change permissions for the device in /dev so that your account (or the users group) can access the scanner. I've run into that issue every time with one of my scanners. Once you change the permissions (if needed), try xsane again as user.
--GrannyGeek

[stretchedthin]

Try this link to the 'how to's' it just might do the trick...
http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=8497.msg57608#msg57608

[dawnsboy]

Granny Geek said:

Have you done su to root and typed
sane-find-scanner

Yes I have.  Doing so returns a message that states device found and lists the location as libusb:001:002

Message also states device may not be supported run scanimage -L

Doing so returns a message "device not found".

stretchedthin said:

Try this link to the 'how to's' it just might do the trick...
http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=8497.msg57608#msg57608

I gave that a whirl but it did not work for me.

I had hoped to get the scanner working on this all in one printer with VL because I have been able to do so in some other Linux variants.  Leave it to me to pick a product that is not supported by the manufacturer for use with Linux.   

Thanks for your help.