Jon Doe wrote: >Does anyone have one of these scanners working? In LM8.1 it shows up when I plug it >in. Xsane even pops up an icon on my desk when I plug it in, but it just says it cant >open /dev/usb/scanner. Has anyone got this working? Can anyone explain it in newbie >terms? > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > If you are lucky enough to have the e40, you are OK. See this:
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=816 It may be that you simply did not load all relevant softeware... try opening the Software manager (local on CD sources) and checking that you have sane and usb modules installed and installing them if not. Most snapscans are in sane-backend drivers after sane 1.0.3. Also, your /dev/usb/scanner may not exist which is why it cannot be opened. You can manufacture one with mknod using the numbers in /usr/share/jkernel-doc (kernel number)/devices.txt Civileme
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