Ubuntu with Epson L380
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PC Linux OS helps for the PRinter and Scanner Drivers in any case ?
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@lakshmana said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
PC Linux OS helps for the PRinter and Scanner Drivers in any case ?
Why did you mention PC Linux OS? What does that have to do with the situation?
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
@lakshmana said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
PC Linux OS helps for the PRinter and Scanner Drivers in any case ?
Why did you mention PC Linux OS? What does that have to do with the situation?
I remember one thread going for the PCLinux OS is that can be used if needed.The device is shown in lsusb command but its not detecting the device for the Scanner !!!
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@lakshmana said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
@lakshmana said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
PC Linux OS helps for the PRinter and Scanner Drivers in any case ?
Why did you mention PC Linux OS? What does that have to do with the situation?
I remember one thread going for the PCLinux OS is that can be used if needed.The device is shown in lsusb command but its not detecting the device for the Scanner !!!
It's a completely different operating system! And not a widely supported one, either.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
ot a widely supported one, eit
Any help can be done in the Ubuntu itself to make detect the scanner !!!
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@lakshmana said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
ot a widely supported one, eit
Any help can be done in the Ubuntu itself to make detect the scanner !!!
First thing you always do is run the current version, not an old version. That's two years of drivers and updates that you are avoiding. That's bad practice in general to run old versions, and this is a very specific place where it tends to be most pronounced as a problem.
That you are considering completely different OSes, but haven't kept the one you have on the current version makes no sense.
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Is that scanner even supported on Ubuntu? Was that checked before purchasing?
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@lakshmana said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
@travisdh1 said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
Did you try the driver from: http://support.epson.net/linux/en/iscan_c.html
I have installed this driver which gives the error as "No Scanner device found"
Sounds like an Epson issue. Have you called support?
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
@lakshmana said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
ot a widely supported one, eit
Any help can be done in the Ubuntu itself to make detect the scanner !!!
First thing you always do is run the current version, not an old version. That's two years of drivers and updates that you are avoiding. That's bad practice in general to run old versions, and this is a very specific place where it tends to be most pronounced as a problem.
That you are considering completely different OSes, but haven't kept the one you have on the current version makes no sense.
I have updated the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS properly updated the drivers and installed xsane and iscan for the Ubuntu.The drivers downloaded from the Epson site itself which shown as supported.The printer driver is detecting only the issue is with the Scanner
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@lakshmana said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
I have updated the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS properly ....
You can't have updated AND be on 16.04. The two mean the opposite things. 16.04 is two years old. 16.10 replaced it, then 17.04 replaced that, then 17.10 replaced that, and 18.04 replaced that in a couple of weeks. You are not updated, LTS means "out of date". That's the purpose of an LTS release, to not be updated.
You are doing something expected to have problems like this. You should start with fixing the known issues, before you start doing crazy things like considering change the operating system completely to an obscure, barely known, poorly supported one.
You might want to leap directly to 18.04 beta, given that you have known driver issues.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
@lakshmana said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
@travisdh1 said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
Did you try the driver from: http://support.epson.net/linux/en/iscan_c.html
I have installed this driver which gives the error as "No Scanner device found"
Sounds like an Epson issue. Have you called support?
Didnt called Epson will call them tomorrow morning once got up
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@lakshmana said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
The drivers downloaded from the Epson site itself which shown as supported.
The drivers are supported on Ubuntu. The question with those drivers is do they support the L380?
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In Fedora this is whats available natively. You usually can use a driver for an older model with the newer version.
EPSON L310 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.13 (Simplified) or EPSON L310 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.13You really should be using the latest version of Ubuntu especially for driver support.
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@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
You really should be using the latest version of Ubuntu especially for driver support.
And just in general. Never run old stuff unless there is a very specific need. It's great that Ubuntu does such a good job of supporting their old releases, but for some reason people use that as an excuse to run Ubuntu poorly in this way all of the time. It's so bad, it's one of the reasons I don't like Ubuntu is because their community has such bad standards and acceptable practices. You basically just assume someone running Ubuntu is going to always do things like this that you'd never accept with a different OS like openSuse, or Fedora.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
You really should be using the latest version of Ubuntu especially for driver support.
And just in general. Never run old stuff unless there is a very specific need. It's great that Ubuntu does such a good job of supporting their old releases, but for some reason people use that as an excuse to run Ubuntu poorly in this way all of the time. It's so bad, it's one of the reasons I don't like Ubuntu is because their community has such bad standards and acceptable practices. You basically just assume someone running Ubuntu is going to always do things like this that you'd never accept with a different OS like openSuse, or Fedora.
There's not even an option when it comes to Fedora. openSuse has an LTS like version too.
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@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
You really should be using the latest version of Ubuntu especially for driver support.
And just in general. Never run old stuff unless there is a very specific need. It's great that Ubuntu does such a good job of supporting their old releases, but for some reason people use that as an excuse to run Ubuntu poorly in this way all of the time. It's so bad, it's one of the reasons I don't like Ubuntu is because their community has such bad standards and acceptable practices. You basically just assume someone running Ubuntu is going to always do things like this that you'd never accept with a different OS like openSuse, or Fedora.
There's not even an option when it comes to Fedora. openSuse has an LTS like version too.
Yes, openSuse has Leap. But the culture of the community is not like Ubuntu and people would question why you were using it when not needed. With Ubuntu, doing it "badly" is just assumed to be the whole idea of being part of the ecosystem.
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Its' awful, but Ubuntu actually makes a solid product. But their community and social system is so bad.
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@scottalanmiller Whether Opensuse helps?I called the Epson team their answer they didn't know about the driver itself so will Opensuse helps in any way?
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@lakshmana said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
@scottalanmiller Whether Opensuse helps?I called the Epson team their answer they didn't know about the driver itself so will Opensuse helps in any way?
Have you actually tried Ubuntu 17.10 or 18.04 to see if it works?
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@lakshmana said in Ubuntu with Epson L380:
@scottalanmiller Whether Opensuse helps?I called the Epson team their answer they didn't know about the driver itself so will Opensuse helps in any way?
Why are you leaping from OS to OS without even trying to properly use the one that you are on? No OS is going to work well if not maintained properly. Start with what we've said from the beginning for getting random and weird. Yes, at some point, switching OSes is an option, but don't do it before you try the one you are on.
