04-24-2015, 12:19 PM
Looks like I need a little help with getting this printer/scanner working.
It's not actually for me but my Mum who's about 11 hours away from where I am.
We're both on LL2.0, it's an MG 2560 I've been informed & I don't have the same printer/scanner.
Printer works fine, just plugged it in and it worked right from the start but the scanner refuses to.
After installing the .deb above neither of us can even get the scangear software to run by using Terminal & 'scangearmp'.
'sudo scangearmp' also does nothing, 'gksudo scangearmp' runs it & it runs for abour 5 seconds then closes itself again.
Tried that with the printer/scanner plugged in, tried restarting with & without the printer/scanner plugged in etc. etc...
We've also added 'sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inameiname/stable' which gives a lot of different choices for the scangear software to be added via Synaptic though nothing tried will work.
No matter what we do it just refuses to recognise the scanner.
Probably off topic but we both had an issue adding that repository by just typing it in, only way it'd work was to paste it in for some reason.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
It's not actually for me but my Mum who's about 11 hours away from where I am.
We're both on LL2.0, it's an MG 2560 I've been informed & I don't have the same printer/scanner.
Printer works fine, just plugged it in and it worked right from the start but the scanner refuses to.
After installing the .deb above neither of us can even get the scangear software to run by using Terminal & 'scangearmp'.
'sudo scangearmp' also does nothing, 'gksudo scangearmp' runs it & it runs for abour 5 seconds then closes itself again.
Tried that with the printer/scanner plugged in, tried restarting with & without the printer/scanner plugged in etc. etc...
We've also added 'sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inameiname/stable' which gives a lot of different choices for the scangear software to be added via Synaptic though nothing tried will work.
No matter what we do it just refuses to recognise the scanner.
Probably off topic but we both had an issue adding that repository by just typing it in, only way it'd work was to paste it in for some reason.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks