I have the above printer/scanner which has worked flawlessly with Manjaro XFCE, Mate and Cinnamon, but I have recently migrated to KDE Plasma and the printer bit works fine but the scanner bit is not recognised. Any ideas?
Solved! A new network adapter with a Realtek RTL8125 driver did the trick.
According to the Arch Wiki:
Most Lexmark scanners are still (2019) not supported by SANE, and thus cannot be detected either by
sane-find-scanneror byscanimage -L. Lexmark provides a non-free driver for GNU/Linux, which is supposed to support all its scanners. Nevertheless, the driver is only distributed for Debian, OpenSUSE, Fedora and Red Hat, but not for Arch. Here is a way to install it.
So I’m thinking you’ve got to go through this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SANE/Scanner-specific_problems#Lexmark
Hope this helps!
One of the options is:
Option 3 : Using AUR package
Install the
lexmark-network-scanAUR package.
Thanks for that, I’ve tried dpkg - no luck and the AUR package is out of date but I’ll keep trying