Samsung scx4100 no more recognised as scanner
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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sane-backends (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
My Samsung scx4100 is no longer available as a scanner in Ubuntu 12.04 (but it is still plug-and-play as a printer). As per lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04e8:3413 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd SCX-4100 Scanner
WORKAROUND: From the repository http://
sudo bash -c 'echo "deb http://
http://
sudo dpkg -i suldr-keyring_
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install suld-driver-4.00.39
Add your user to the ld users as asked by the package installation (maybe this is the reason the official Samsung drivers don't work ???) and log-out/ log-in.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: sane 1.0.14-9
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 18 16:21:56 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: sane-frontends
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
description: | updated |
tags: | added: needs-yakkety-test xenial |
description: | updated |
working with a simple workaround :-)
It is enought to change a couple of lines in the configuration files of sane for the xerox_mfp driver:
Open a terminal and type: d/xerox_ mfp.conf
sudo gedit /etc/sane.
At the end of the file copy/paste these two lines, save and exit:
# Samsung SCX-4100
usb 0x04e8 0x3413
Now the same for the second file. From terminal type: rules.d/ 40-libsane. rules =="04e8" , ATTRS{idProduct }=="3413" , ENV{libsane_ matched} ="yes"
sudo gedit /lib/udev/
Now, NOT at the end of the file as earlier, but around row 832, close to "Samsung scx-4200", add the following two rows:
# Samsung SCX-4100
ATTRS{idVendor}
Save, close, and (maybe not needed) reboot. Scanner should be ready to be used.
I emailed the guys of the xerox_mfp driver, so I hope they will include the Samsung SCX-4100 in the list of their supported devices for nexts versions of their drivers...