Samsung SCX-4100 Printer/Scanner problems [Solved]

[mpetty]

I recently received a Samsung SCX-4100. It is a combo scanner/laser printer. It does come with Linux drivers. Linux does recognize it.

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lsusb     
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04e8:3413 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd 

SANE does not have any samsung devices in their usermap, and I couldn't find any good instructions on how to create a map. Running ./libusbscanner results in no output. Running a sane frontend or searching for scanners shows nothing found.

I'm running an amd64 system. Am I hosed, or is there some way to make this work?

[Solved]
Be sure to install the newest drivers from the Samsung website. The drivers that are shipped ARE NOT the drivers available for download.

In the /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap file, add this line:

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#Samsung SCX-4100
libusbscanner             0x0003      0x04e8   0x3413    0x0000       0x0000       0x00         0x00            0x00            0x00            0x00               0x00               0x00000000

That should do it. Scanner and printer work great

[mpetty]

I guess that I should give more info. I have the libsane-samsung_scx4100.so libraries in both /usr/local/lib/sane/ and /usr/lib/sane/

my make.conf file has usb as a use flag and SANE_BACKENDS="samsung"


I think that I have everything configured right except for being able to put up a usermask for sane.

I haven't tried to print yet, I mainly want the scanner functionality. SANE documents consider it's support good, but doesn't have the product id's.

[mpetty]

Printing does work (after a bit of fiddling around).

Still working on the scanner. Here's my current output:

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localhost / # scanimage -L
device `samsung_scx4100:SAMSUNG SCX-4100 Series on USB:0' is a SAMSUNG SCX-4100 Series on USB:0 Flatbed Scanner
localhost / # sane-find-scanner

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
  # Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your operating system.
  # If using Linux, try "modprobe sg".

  # No USB scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a driver for your USB host controller and have installed a
  # kernel scanner module.

  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.

  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
  # can't be detected by this program.
localhost / #