et wrote:
On Sunday 07 December 2003 12:52 pm, Graham Watkins wrote:
Hi again folks,
I briefly managed to get my scanner working through Mandrake control centre (first time ever!) - long enough to do a test scan which was successful. However the next time I tried to use it, Xsane could not detect the device. Back into control centre - the scanner was not shown. I set it up manually (it's a Hewlett Packard 4200C) and everything seemed to be OK but when I tried to use it, again no scanners were detected. It worked once, it must be possible to get it going again. Anyone know how?
Cheers
more info required;;;;
what version of MDK?
is it a USB scanner? LPT? scsi?
in /etc/sane.d/ do you have a file "hp4200.conf" and does it have the same settings as reported by 'sane-find-scanner' (as root, in the CLI)
I'm running 9.2.
It's a USB scanner
hp4200.conf reads as follows:
# Options dor the hp4200 backend
# Autodetect the HP4200c usb 0x03f0 0x0105
/dev/usbscanner /dev/usb/scanner0 /dev/scanner
I spent this weekend setting up a scanner on 9.2, so my knowledge is relatively recent...
You don't seem to have a firmware line in this file. Have you found the firmware file, and installed it in the correct directory? If you haven't, the file should be on the installation CD - my firmware file was hiding on the CD in a directory called 'Windows XP' - file should be called *.usb (eg mine is called sbfw.usb - yours is a different scanner so will have a different file name but same .usb extension).
Try reading man sane-usb - it is quite useful! Also, look at this site -
http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ - full of useful information, including lists of names of firmware files etc.
Hope this helps.
Margot
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