Dale <rdalek1967 <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Howdy, > > This is confusing. A month or so ago, my HP 5300C scanner worked just > fine.
Hello Dale, I always keep old (very old) backups of the config file in /etc/cups to see if when a software upgrade occurs, or I have to use the admin page of cups to update/modify/test print/scanner hardware. So it's an easy check therein, if you kept old copies in /etc/cups. Sometimes newer versions of cups do not work well with older or obscure features of various printers/scanners. As far as USB goes, the device's device driver could have been change or it, as a legacy (usb) device became a new part of one of the "unified" device drivers. You'll have to research that or build a new/test kernel with all sorts of USB drivers enabled. You definately have a usb issue, at the very least. If those (2) ideas do not bear fruit, find a "usb sniffer" and use that. You might have to go to a windows box to test the scanner too. Not likely, but the usb chip could have went bad.... http://vusb-analyzer.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbsnoop/ or general usb tools (may) help: app-admin/usbview sys-apps/usbmon sys-apps/usbutils etc...... ............many more usb sniffer too................. Just eliminate the possibilities. I'd test it on a windows box if necessary too. This all begs the question of how it was set up : (after the usb issue is resolved). hplip, cups, *sane*, ??? hth, James
