On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Denis Heidtmann<[email protected]> wrote: > In trying to get my HP PhotoSmart S20 scanner communicating with > VirtualBox (Win 2K guest) I found that the information received by the > kernel (2.6.28-13-generic) from the scanner is wildly inconsistent. > The vendor # and device # are consistent, but the rest is garbled (HP > ?HP PhotoSmart C5101A, HP ?HP oSmart C5101A - S20, HP P, > HEW?HEWLETT-PAC, etc) when it should be HP PhotoSmart C5101A - S20. > This is on a newly set-up machine running Ubuntu 9.04. The MB is an > Asus M3N78-VM. The system appears to communicate with other devices > on the USB properly (an HP DeskJet 930C and a ScanDisk card reader). > > The data from the scanner received by kernel 2.6.26-2-686 running > Debian Lenny on a Lenovo ThinkPad T42 does not suffer this problem. > > Any ideas would be welcomed. The scanner is a wonderful machine--it > worked fine on Win ME on the old MB when I was dual booting. > > Thanks, > > -Denis > I have tried ubuntu 8.04 32 bit (live), a new cable, and a different plug on the MB. Same behavior. Since this scanner worked with my old MB, I would like to try a PCI USB card to see if it has better luck.
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