On Saturday 12 January 2002 21:47, you wrote: > OK, I thought this was going to be an easy one. Apparently I was wrong. I > have an Epson Perfection 1650 USB scanner chosen partially because it is > supported by SANE under Linux. I am running Mandrake 8.1 which has USB > support. But the scanner does not show up in /dev/usb, though usbview > shows it as present. And, of course, it doesn't show up --- nothing does > --- in sane-find-scanner run as root. > > I downloaded and installed the latest versions of sane (1.0.6) and xsane > (0.83) to no avail. > > Help! I have been through the newbie and expert email archives and found > nothing that seems relevant. Where do I look next? Anybody got a spare clue > for me? > > andy > > > > Andy Davidson --- Pheon Research > If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
Hi Andy, I hope I can help: I have an Epson 1240U, and had similar problems with LM 8.0 (I haven't upgraded yet.) First place to check: cat /proc/bus/usb/devices For my machine the vendor # is 0x04b8 and the Product # is 0x010b (it'll be different for your 1650U) once you've found the Product # you can modprobe: modprobe scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x0--- create the device file in /dev: mknod /dev/usbscanner0 c 180 48 chmod 666 /dev/usbscanner0 then edit your /etc/sane.d or /usr/local/etc/sane.d: usb /dev/usbscanner0 Hope this helps: it got my scanner up and running in LM 8.0. I can't vouch what will happen in LM 8.1 because I've never seen the file system. Regards, Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember, in your prayers, the suffering souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly with His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/
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