Canoscan N1240U and OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard
Dear all
Having seen MANY other threads on the topic and having done lots of playing myself, I thought I would share how I got my scanner working today.
1. I downloaded both the Canoscan Toolbox and the latest drivers from here: http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ProductCatIndex1Act&fcategoryid =104
Note that they are ONLY available from the US site. The European/UK site which I originally went to only has version 4 driver for 10.1.x and will not work as it is Classic 9 binary.
2. Change your account to have full Admin rights within the Accounts pane. For some reason, none of it is happy installing without those rights.
3. Install the drivers first. They will be installed to your System area. Reboot.
4. Install the Canoscan Toolbox to Applications. You MUST have this installed for the scanner to work.
5. Install the drivers AGAIN. This time the installer will put them in the Canoscan folder in Applications. Reboot again.
6. Plug in your scanner. At this point you will think it is broken. It isn't. OSX will find it but, unlike under Windows, it will not do make a short calibration whirring noise as if it is scanning.
7. Run Canoscan Toolbox and set-up the buttons and Settings as you want.
8. Press one of the button on the front of the Scanner (Copy, Scan or Email). Personally, I have the "Email" button set to scan the document and create a PDF as I am increasingly going paperless and scan most things rather than filing.
9. The software & scanner should start calibrating at this point and start scanning. You can leave it running or cancel as not, it is entirely up to you, as long as you have the warm glow of satisfaction at having got an 8 year old piece of kit working with Snow Leopard.
Best Regards
GeekDaddy
The following notes report back on reviving the Canoscan N1240U under OS 10.5.8 - I understand how confusing it is that the software does not appear to be installing in the locations specified (above) - go ahead and do the 2nd round of installations, and with luck (fingers crossed) you will also see your old scanner come to life.
As is ALWAYS the case (in my experience) you will not find coherent instructions on the manufacturer's website. This is surely not by accident. Don't waste any valuable time attempting to glean a method from there.
And another piece of electronics has been diverted from the 'average path' of becoming toxic landfill. I'm sure Canon hates this! I poke my tongue at them.
And now, to attempt my next trick - resume printing to a venerable old HP LaserJet 5MP. Another journey with many obstacles.
G.
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Unable to access gateway and DNS via VPN (L2TP) with Snow Leopard Server
Summary:
After rebooting my VPN server, i am able to establish a VPN (L2TP) connection from outside my private network. I am able to connect (ping, SSH, …) the gateway only until the first client disconnects. Then i can perfectly access all the other computers of the private network, but i cannot access the private IP address of the gateway.
Additionally, during my first VPN connection, my DNS server, which is on the same server, is not working properly with VPN. I can access it with the public IP address of my gateway. I can access it from inside my private network. A port scan indicates me that the port 53 is open, but a dig returns me a timeout.
Configuration:
Cluster of 19 Xserve3.1 - Snow Leopard Server 10.6.2
Private network 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -> domain name: cluster
-> 1 controller, which act as a gateway for the cluster private network, with the following services activated:
DHCP, DNS, firewall (allowing all incoming traffic for each groups for test purposes), NAT, VPN, OpenDirectory, web, software update, AFP, NFS and Xgrid controller.
en0: fixed public IP address -> controller.example.com
en1: 192.168.1.254 -> controller.cluster
-> 18 agents with AFP and Xgrid agent activated:
en1: 192.168.1.x -> nodex.cluster with x between 1 and 18
VPN (L2TP) server distributes IP addresses between 192.168.1.201 and 192.168.1.210 (-> vpn1.cluster to vpn10.cluster). Client informations contain the private network DNS server informations (192.168.1.254, search domain: cluster).
_*Detailed problem description:*_
After rebooting the Xserve, my VPN server works fine except for the DNS. My client receives the correct informations:
Configure IPv4: Using PPP
IPv4 address: 192.168.1.201
Subnet Mask:
Router: 192.168.1.254
DNS: 192.168.1.254
Search domain: cluster
From my VPN client, i can ping all the Xserve of my cluster (192.168.1.1 to 18 and 192.168.1.254). If i have a look in Server Admin > Settings > Network, i have three interfaces listed: en0, en1 and ppp0 of family IPv4 with address 192.168.1.254 and DNS name controller.cluster.
The DNS server returns me timeouts when i try to do a dig from my VPN client even if i am able to access it directly from a computer inside or outside my private network.
After i disconnect, i can see in Server Admin that the IP address of my ppp0 interface has switch to my public IP address.
Then i can always establish a VPN (L2TP) connection, but the client receives the following informations:
Configure IPv4: Using PPP
IPv4 address: 192.168.1.202
Subnet Mask:
Router: (Public IP address of my VPN server)
DNS: 192.168.1.254
Search domain: cluster
From my VPN client, i can access all the other computers of my network (192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.18) but when i ping my gateway (192.168.1.254), it returns me timeouts.
I have two "lazy" solutions to this problem: 1) Configure VPN and DNS servers on two differents Xserve, 2) Put the public IP address of my gateway as DNS server address, but none of these solutions are acceptable for me…
Any help is welcome!!!I would suggest taking a look at:
server admin:vpn:settings:client information:network route definitions.
as I understand your setup it should be something like
192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 private.
at least as a start. I just got done troubleshooting a similar issue but via two subnets:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2292827&tstart=0 -
Hi. I was having slowness problems with my Macbook Pro and thought I would re-install Lion but put Snow Leopard back on by mistake. I bought the computer used with Lion on it and don't have access to the USB drive or a username/password to reinstall Lion. Now I can't access Mail or iPhoto since I put Snow Leopard on.
Is there a way to get my Mail and iPhoto working again with Snow Leopard or do I have to "re-upgrade" to Lion?
Thanks!
SteveYou can't. When you converted those libraries to Lion's format, you lost the ability to go backwards. Unless you saved a bootable backup./clone or Time Machine backup of your previous SL installation, you're up the proverbial creek w/o a paddle.
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