Problems getting an HP Photosmart C4180 to scan with SANE

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Thursday 05 January 2012 18:11:11 Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> hello, world\n
> 
> I'm trying to get an HP Photosmart C4180 to scan with 9-STABLE.
> I've read the relevant section in the handbook and installed
> /usr/ports/graphics/sane-backend.
> The printer is conected via USB cable and it probes as
> 
> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus4 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <HP Photosmart C4180 1.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
> da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
> 
> The scanner is found with
> # sane-find-scanner -q
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [HP], product=0x5711 [Photosmart C4100
> series]) at libusb:/dev/usb:/dev/ugen3.2
> 
> However, I can't get scanimage to work:
> 
> # scanimage --list-devices
> 
> No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
> check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
> sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
> which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
> 
> I tried frobbing various parts of /usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf
> but to no avail. Does anyone know the magic spell/place/file/tweak?

Hi,

Try to eject using cdcontrol, da0. Maybe it is an auto-installer, or see with 
usbconfig if there is multiple configurations.

--HPS