New scanner/printer combo

[Louis Lagendijk]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 23:43 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> My truly ancient Epson C82 finally refused to respond to the head cleaning
> paddles yesterday, so I went out and got a new Epson NX515 combo scanner & 
> printer.
> 
> It signs on as: (Fedora 10, kernel 2.6.32-rc5)
> =====================
> Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598891.940960] usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 16
> Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.079434] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=04b8, idProduct=0856
> Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.079437] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
> Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.079440] usb 1-4: Product: USB2.0 MFP(Hi-Speed)
> Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.079442] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: EPSON
> Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.079444] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: 4C454C593037313524
> Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.079540] usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.087345] usblp2: USB Bidirectional printer dev 16 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x0856
> Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.088576] scsi10 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> Oct 23 20:27:20 coyote kernel: [598897.090894] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access     EPSON    Storage          1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
> Oct 23 20:27:20 coyote kernel: [598897.091362] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg9 type 0
> Oct 23 20:27:20 coyote kernel: [598897.101631] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdi] Attached SCSI removable disk
> Oct 23 20:27:23 coyote hal_lpadmin: File "/usr/libexec/hal_lpadmin", line 717, in main#012    h = HalLpAdmin()
> Oct 23 20:27:23 coyote hal_lpadmin: File "/usr/libexec/hal_lpadmin", line 686, in __init__#012    self.addPrinter()
> Oct 23 20:27:23 coyote hal_lpadmin: File "/usr/libexec/hal_lpadmin", line 700, in addPrinter#012    printer.add()
> Oct 23 20:27:23 coyote hal_lpadmin: File "/usr/libexec/hal_lpadmin", line 541, in add#012    location=os.uname ()[1])
> Oct 23 20:27:23 coyote hal_lpadmin: IPPError: (1025, 'client-error-forbidden')
> =========================
> 
> which appears that the scanner, ahh, wait, its got a card reader in it too,
> in addition to ethernet and bluetooth.  So that explains /dev/sg9 and /dev/sgi.
> 
> So there are two problems, which do not prevent it from being used for all
> sorts of utility printing.

> Problem 2 is that the scanner doesn't even check in as shown above.  
> OTOH, I also have an Epson 1250u that works flawlessly, but it would be nice 
> to get rid of one rather high occupancy item here in the coyote.den.

and this is the strange part: why does it not show the scanner? What
does lsusb return? Does the scanner work under Windows? Not that it
matters much as the scanner seems not supported by Sane right now. But
maybe this is just a matter of adding the usb id....

Louis