Troubleshooting =============== Recently, a lot of work went into smoothening the scanbd experience on Debian. The program ought to simply work out of the box. Plug & Play. Here are a few things you can poke around to find out where things go wrong if they go wrong. 1) attach scanner to your computer 2) press one of the scanner buttons 3) if things are good then you find some feedback in the syslog "grep -e scanbd.*trigger /var/log/syslog" 4) make sure that scanbd is actually running "pidof scanbd" should return a number 5) make sure that your scanner is recognized "pidof scanbd && SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/sane.d scanimage -L" This should list your scanner supported by the net (!) backend 6) stop scanbd 7) test for direct scanbd support "pidof scanbd && echo "scanbd is still running and shouldn't. Please retry." ; SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/scanbd scanimage -L" This should show you how scanbd addresses your scanner. It should NOT be the net backend you saw earlier. This is due to the design of scanbd and saned and how they interact. If you run into problems, be sure to let us know via the bug tracker so that we can improve the experience even further.