Hello Friends! I'm the OP.
Problem solved.
One laptop. Two printers. Epson L220 (USB connected) and Epson L355 (wifi
connected). I can now print and scan with both printers, one connected
via USB, and the other over wifi.
With regards to scanning, if I have been scanning with L220, then for some
reason I need to switch to wifi scanner L355 to scan something else, all I
need to do is edit /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf by:
commenting out
*usb 0x04b8 0x08d1*
and uncommenting *net 192.168.X.XXX *(so I can switch to scanning over
wifi).
Unfortunately I'm not sure exactly what got it to work. I can only tell
you what I installed, and what files I created and edited.
Weird as it is, it seems I have to install these two. Again, not sure if
it was indeed the solution that got it working.
*sudo dpkg --install imagescan_3.57.0-1epson4debian8_amd64.deb *
(which is inside the core folder of this file:
*imagescan-bundle-debian-8-3.57.0.x64.deb.tar.gz)*
and
also using dpkg command on the deb files in the core and data folders of
this file: *iscan-bundle-1.0.0.x64.deb.tar.gz*
Furthermore, here are some things that I'm not sure is necessary. I will
leave it as is because everything is working fine and I'm too lazy to rule
out anything that's not needed.
In */etc/sane.d/dll.conf *, notice what is commented and uncommented.
#epjitsu
#epson
#epson2
#epsonds
epkowa
Also, created the files
*/etc/udev/rules.d/49-sane-missing-scanner.rules*
and
*/etc/udev/rules.d/myVendor.rules*
and added the following lines in them:
*SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="04b8", ATTRS{idProduct}==”08d1″,
MODE="0664", GROUP=”scanner”,
ENV{libsane_matched}=”yes"SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="04b8",
ATTRS{idProduct}==”08d1″, MODE="0664", GROUP=”scanner”,
ENV{libsane_matched}=”yes"*
That's about all the things I did. Sorry I can't be more helpful. Been
using Linux for years but compared to you guys I know next to nothing.
Thank you very much for all your input!
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 8:07 PM Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun 09 Feb 2020 at 10:20:54 -0000, Curt wrote:
>
> > On 2020-02-09, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > Against doing this is the fact that Epson does not provide a package
> > > for the L220 that employs the epkowa backend. That is because epkowa
> > > is not meant for that device. Maybe the OP has found this out by now.
> >
> > Did you tell the OP that? I missed it. Oh, I see you asked what file the
> > OP downloaded and that question was left hanging without a response.
> >
> > Epson only seems to provide a single generic package for their
> > scanners/multifunction printers.
>
> There is also an iscan-bundle, which has libsane-epkowa.
>
> > http://support.epson.net/linux/en/imagescanv3.php
>
> The imagescan bundle uses libsane-imagescan.
>
> > http://download.ebz.epson.net/man/linux/imagescanv3_e.html#sec6-1
> >
> > I was thrown off by the OP's error message:
> >
> > Failed to open device 'epkowa:usb:002:003':
>
> The imagescan bundle is what is offered by Epson for the L220 at
>
> http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX
>
> Permissions on the USB bus wouldn't have been top of my list to look
> at.
>
> > Maybe that's related to the (perhaps unwise) entry the OP added to
> > /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf. It's true the installation manual linked above
> > makes no mention of it.
> >
> > > (Incidentally, the bug that the Ubuntu advice is targeting is one
> > > that was never present in Debian stable, testing or unstable).
> >
> > That too, I guess.
>
> Ubuntu took the SANE packages from experimental to put into 18.04 LTS.
> You reap what you sow.
>
> --
> Brian.
>
>
