[Somewhat SOLVED] Epson L3156 Network Printer and Scanner

[Ja.KooLit]

Hi Guys,

So I am struggling for days now here and been trying lots of things but I still I couldnt get my printer to scan over network

My printer/scanner is Epson L3156, connected through wifi

First issue was printing, which was later solve. In unconventional wal

I have managed to add my printer by adding manually the LPD address which was I copied from my Arch Linux ....

if I search my printer through cups http://localhost:631, it wont see my network printer...


2nd issue, network scanner
I have set sane-backends appropriately
followed wiki
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SANE

But still I cannot see my network scanner and I am unable to scan some things....

Just a small background, I have no issue when I have my profile set to systemd desktop with global ~amd64

now I have set my profile to
[30] default/linux/amd64/23.0/no-multilib/systemd (stable) non global ~amd64

This is fresh reinstall

any help would be much appreciated

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net-print/cups-meta-1::gentoo  USE="browsed foomatic pdf poppler postscript zeroconf"

net-print/cups-2.4.7-r2::gentoo  USE="X acl dbus pam systemd zeroconf -debug -kerberos -openssl (-selinux) -static-libs -test -usb -xinetd"

media-gfx/xsane-0.999-r6::gentoo  USE="nls -gimp -jpeg -lcms -png -tiff"

media-gfx/sane-backends-1.2.1::gentoo  USE="snmp systemd usb zeroconf -gphoto2 -threads -v4l -xinetd" SANE_BACKENDS="epson epson2 epsonds -abaton -agfafocus -apple -artec -artec_eplus48u -as6e -avision -bh -canon -canon630u -canon_dr -canon_lide70 -canon_pp -cardscan -coolscan -coolscan2 -coolscan3 -dc25 -dc210 -dc240 -dell1600n_net -dmc -epjitsu -escl -fujitsu -genesys -gt68xx -hp -hp3500 -hp3900 -hp4200 -hp5400 -hp5590 -hpljm1005 -hpsj5s -hs2p -ibm -kodak -kodakaio -kvs20xx -kvs40xx -kvs1025 -leo -lexmark -ma1509 -magicolor -matsushita -microtek -microtek2 -mustek -mustek_pp -mustek_usb -mustek_usb2 -nec -net -niash -p5 -pie -pieusb -pixma -plustek -plustek_pp -pnm -qcam -ricoh -ricoh2 -rts8891 -s9036 -sceptre -sharp -sm3600 -sm3840 -snapscan -sp15c -st400 -stv680 -tamarack -teco1 -teco2 -teco3 -test -u12 -umax -umax1220u -umax_pp -xerox_mfp"

[Fitzcarraldo]

I don't have an Epson printer, so probably cannot be much help, but are there any config files for Epson printers in the /etc/sane.d/ directory, and did you define the printer's IP address in one of those config files? For example:

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# epson2.conf
#
# here are some examples for how to configure the EPSON2 backend

# SCSI
scsi EPSON
# for the GT-6500:
#scsi "EPSON SC"

# Parallel port
#pio 0x278
#pio 0x378
#pio 0x3BC

# USB
usb

# For libusb support for unknown scanners use the following command
# usb <vendor ID> <product ID>
# e.g.:
# usb 0x4b8 0x110

# Network
#
net 192.168.1.123
net autodiscovery

Also, I notice that there are ebuilds for the Epson scanner driver Epson Scan 2 in some third-party Gentoo overlays. Have you tried any of those?:

http://gpo.zugaina.org/media-gfx/epsonscan2

[Ja.KooLit]

Than you.. you pointed me to right direction

I have edited files and add manually the epson2.conf and epsonds.conf and even saned.conf

on epson scanner tool by zugaina, I have to add manually the scanner . (does not auto detect)

on sane scan scanner and document scanner, it now detects my scanner


Anyway, atleast I can now print and scan

so seems like auto detection does not work..

Oh well lesson learned ....

Thanks alot again