[solved] Unable to detect HP All-in-one scanner

I have an HP Deskjet f2240 All-in-one. Printing works fine, however I'm unable to use the scanner. Under Ubuntu, I can scan using scanimage or xsane. Under Arch, scanimage -L says "No scanners were identified." Finally, if I run "sane-find-scanner" it outputs "found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x2404) at libusb:004:005."
Anyone have any ideas?
Last edited by mcfitz2 (2010-05-26 19:25:09)

I had same problem. Once I install xsane(and couple of other utils which I don't remember ofhand right now), the hp-toolbox started showing scan. Try doing it. xsane is not default in Arch.

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