Make WIFI Scanner work on Debian 12 (bookworm)
I need to scan documents ever so often. So I've got a scanner at home, it works great with Linux. But Linux is a hostile place for users, so of course it does not work out of the box, although things have improved a lot since I've last posted about scanners here.
These days all the required drivers for my scanner (and most scanners really) are already preinstalled on normal debain desktop installs. There's one one key thing not working out of the box: making a WiFi connection.
To get that working you'll need to figure out the IP address of your scanner. I
found mine with nmap. I guess looking it up in my WiFi routers control pannel
would also work.
Then I could configure sane like so:
sudo bash -c 'echo "192.168.0.93" >> /etc/sane.d/net.conf'
After running that command (192.168.0.93 is the scanners IP address, will
vary) my scanner showd up Debians document scanner app.