Hi, On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 04:05:56PM -0500, Richard M. Teitel wrote: > I installed Red Hat Linux 8.0 on my computer and can't get SANE to > recognize the UMAX Astra 3400 scanner attached to the USB port. Here's > what I know: > > etc/sysconfig/hwconf shows a "UMAX USB SCANNER" attached to the USB > port, of "OTHER" class and "unknown" driver. > > The file "/usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids" did not include the UMAX 3400, > although other UMAX scanners were there. So I modified it. It is now > included.
I don't know these files. Are they used for hardware detection/hotplugging? > The file "/usr/share/doc/sane-backends-1.0.8/sane-plustek.man" clearly > states that the Plustek driver will work with the UMAX 3400 scanner. That's true. > "sane-find-scanner" returns an information message, but does not > identify the scanner. So your scanner wasn't detected by the kernel at all. By the way: Which kernel version? First make sure, that your scanner is detected by the kernel. Run "rmmod scanner" to unload the kernel scanner module. Then run "modprobe scanner vendor=0x1606 product=0x0060" to tell the scanner module about your scanner. Now sane-find-scanner should find your scanner. Set up plustek.conf as necessary (probably you need to change /dev/usbscanner to /dev/usb/scanner0). > How do I get SANE (which apparently stands for Scanner Access NOT Easy) It doesn't help to grumble about SANE if the people that may help are most probably SANE users or developers :-) Especially if SANE is not involved at all (but the kernel). > to realize that there really is a scanner attached to the USB port and > that it needs to run the Plustek driver to communicate? Any help will > be appreciated. You can also look at what's connected to your system by running "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices". There you should find the ids of your scanner, in case I gave you the wrong ones. If this file doesn't exist, run "mount -t usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb". More information is in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/scanner.txt, man sane-usb, man sane-plustek. Bye, Henning ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
