Want my Canoscan N670U to work on this Solus laptop. It has always worked from start on Fedora and the other distros I've used before. Here on Solus I obviously need to work a little and that's ok, but where do I start?
The software I use on other machines is the Document Scanner, which I don't find here.

    Benke First, welcome to Solus!
    Next please help us to help you. Post output from the following command run in terminal.
    inxi -F
    Then other users will know what hardware and Solus version they are dealing with.

    Thanks

      Benke https://www.usa.canon.com/support/p/canoscan-n670u

      canon says no support at all for this model anymore so fedora must've had a good old package. find that package. maybe it came bundled in a scanner package and find that package?
      I'm of 2 minds: you really have to find a scanner driver, so install sane-backends to be sure.

      That might guarantee another program can access it. Grscan2pdf has always detected my scanner even though its clunky. stuff like simplescan and skalnlite have never worked for me. Gscan, yes and an wild animal called Xsane also detected it. ***Disclaimer/edit--I don't use none of those anymore since flatpak has a program just for my Epson model now----flatpak search canon came out negative butflatpak search scanner came up with a truckload.

      I wonder what the internets say about a N670U package floating around, as in source code (not deb or rpm)?

      where there's a will there's a way here, you will win in the end. trial and error.
      2 cents

          See vuescan. Just download -> unpack -> click on vuescan

          Axios could be as easy as the backends package? good. that's installed default then.

            Benke On request:

            System:
  Host: benke-solus Kernel: 6.11.7-309.current arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: GNOME v: 47.1 Distro: Solus 4.6 convergence
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP EliteBook Folio 9470m
    v: A1029D1102 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 18DF v: KBC Version 62.19
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Hewlett-Packard v: 68IBD Ver. F.62
    date: 10/22/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 20.8 Wh (41.9%) condition: 49.6/49.6 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 14.2 min: 14.8
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-3437U bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 798 min/max: 800/2900 cores: 1: 798 2: 798 3: 798 4: 798
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP HD Webcam [Fixed]
    driver: uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 24.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
    dri: crocus gpu: i915 resolution: 1600x900~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: crocus,swrast
    platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.2 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.2.7
    renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.11.7-309.current status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.6 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e
  IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: a0:1d:48:b6:97:7b
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 driver: iwlwifi
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: c4:d9:87:27:f0:ab
  Device-3: HP HP hs2350 HSPA+ MobileBroadband
    driver: cdc_acm,cdc_mbim,cdc_wdm type: USB
  IF: wwp0s26u1u5i6 state: down mac: 0e:7c:02:e8:3b:28
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Centrino Bluetooth Wireless Transceiver driver: btusb
    type: USB
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 4 state: down bt-service: disabled
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 167.68 GiB used: 30.89 GiB (18.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Intel model: SSDSC2BF180A4H size: 167.68 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 154.33 GiB used: 30.89 GiB (20.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 7.62 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
  ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.62 GiB used: 2.37 GiB (31.1%)
  Processes: 240 Uptime: 6h 31m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.36

            Mod edit: Wrapped command output in code tags (```).

            • Evan

                brent Canon ended the support for this model long time ago. So when I stopped to use windows xp 32 around 2006 I couldn't use it anymore, and later bought a hp scanner. But it is light weight, need no external power and works well so I prefer it over the Hp.

                    Benke keep what you love and what works for you.
                    like @axios said make sure the sane-backends package is installed. add the scanner via printer setup dialog box, manually. if that does not work try the two programs that see me flatbed scanner. edit: nevermind solus print dialogue would only an all in one scanner not the flatbed. so make sure sane is installed. plug in scanner. reboot

                    ^^ is the way to do it for free. I believe @pomon sent you a pay option and another website Hamrick works like that. troubleshoot and try some things and report back

                      I got revise my earlier post just hooked up the d646u (and I remb it wasnt supported by sane)
                      thats why i got the lide its supported and works.
                      (just didnt want confusion)

                      Benke I took a look round the Cannon website, not too much help there I'm afraid.
                      If you find the ideas that @brent , @Axios and @pomon have put forward don't span out you could use Oracle VirtualBox to install Win XP 32 as a virtual machine in Solus. At that point the original drivers supplied by cannon would be usable. Using a virtual machine provides many advantages which have been discussed elsewhere on the forum. When running an outdated OS like windows XP it would be advisable to switch off network connection to the virtual OS via VirtualBox controls. This is a very usable fix which allows compatibility with legacy hardware while enjoying the speed and security of Solus.
                      Edit:
                      If you decide to try VirtualBox then two commands are required in the terminal.
                      Install VirtualBox sudo eopkg install virtualbox-current
                      Enrol VirtualBox User group sudo usermod -aG vboxusers $USER
                      You will need an XP iso which can be found at various archive sites on the internet if you do not have one already.

                        Benke

                        Download Document Scanner in Discover. I have a Lide 220 and DS detects it fine and works. DS is the simplest method.

                          Searched for document scanner in software center with no hits. Tried Simplescan same result , but then witn simple scan it found that Document Scanner I had been looking for from beginning. Installed and all is fine.


                            In my research n670u ran across some usb issues people had with it not sure if its the case with yours
                            but sane says its supported and if installed I would say it should work.

                            Fedora did a fix for it so prob why it was working for you on fedora.
                            https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1750899
                            Maybe this will be of use. (May not be related but something keep in mind)

                            Benke

                            Glad you found Document Scanner, might be worth installing Discover as Software Centre is to be depreciated in the future as I understand.