Doktor 500. Set below the amended response from the queries:-
[root@down rod]# sane-find-scanner
# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
# result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
# scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
# you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
# Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your operating system.
# If using Linux, try "modprobe sg".
# No USB scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
# you have loaded a kernel driver for your USB host controller and have setup
# the USB system correctly. See man sane-usb for details.
# Not checking for parallel port scanners.
# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
# can't be detected by this program.
[root@down rod]# exit
exit
[rod@down ~]$ hp-doctor
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.6)
Self Diagnse Utility and Healing Utility ver. 1.0
Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
warning: mageia distro is not found in AUTH_TYPES
Checking for Deprecated items....
error: This distro (i.e unknown 0.0) is either deprecated or not yet supported.
The diagnosis is limited on unsupported platforms. Do you want to continue?(y=yes*, n=no):
Sorry about missing the non-root requirement fot hp-doctor. However, I did try the HP-doctor command on my laptop running mga 7, and that did elicit a resopnse, so presumably this is an mga6/7 facility. It produced a very long responc, which given a bit more time, I could set the laptop up for access to the forum. However, in the printout from the command, there was nothing regarding scanner facilities on an MFP
Returning the the Mageia Control Centre case, the 'install scanner' option is solely for stand-alones scanners, as evinced by the listing of compatible scanners, all of which were stand-alone units. As I mentioned earlier, there was advice as to MFP scanners, referring the installation of MFP devices back the the 'install printr'e option. I've found the same problem of no scanner functionality on the laptop running Mga 7. I'm wondering whether i ought to take this up as a bug, since the Control Centre scanner install refers you back to the printer install, which appears to have no functionality in regard to incorporated scanners.
In respect of connections, the new printer scanner has connectability via USB and networks. I particularly chose this device, since along with ethernet connectivity, it also connects over wifi, which, in a practical sense is much more useful, in a domestic environment than ethernet