I needed to plug in my scanner today, after getting a request for some pictures to be scanned and emailed. Its an Epson 1260 USB model, and it has run on this PC before (with Xsane, Iscan didn't work) under Mandrake 9.1 (I've upgraded to 9.2). When I switch the scanner on, and plug in the USB cable, then look at 'USB Devices', no device is shown at all.
dmesg and /var/log/messages do not appear to show any USB related errors on booting. 'modprobe'ing for 'usbcore' and 'scanner' work fine (they're already loaded). Trying to run Xsane and/or Iscan (in case it decides to work!) brings a message 'Could not send command to scanner'. Running the 'sane-find-scanner' command as root finds nothing.
I'm thinking that the software is OK, but that not being able to see the USB device ID and product ID over the USB bus is not looking good on the hardware side of things...is there anything I can do to test whether my USB controller is bung? Oh, USB is enabled from the BIOS in case you thought it may not have been...
Its a Via VT8235 based USB 2.0 controller, on an Asrock K7VM4 mobo, and there are 3 USB hubs for a total of 6 USB 1.x/2.0 ports, none of which allow me to see the device on the bus...
-- Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch, New Zealand.
