Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > > | Vendor: Model: Scanner 636A4 Rev: 1.50 > > | Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > I think this is the problem mentioned some days ago: If one of the > fields is empty (spaces only) the scanner is not detected. This is > fixed in current CVS. > > > Since most of the times I boot up with the scanner unpowered, and then > > tell the kernel to add the scsi device, the scanner becomes /dev/sg3. > > However, if I boot up with the scanner ON, it is assigned /dev/sg0. > > As you can see, creating a /dev/scanner link is problematic. > > You may try to add /dev/sg3 and /dev/sg0 to microtek2.conf and try if > this works. No guaranties from me but as you don't seem to have hard > discs everything should be ok. SANE checks both devices and looks for > a scanner.
Some months ago, Douglas Gilbert provided a patch to handle this kind of "moving sg numbers". Thios patch is too in the current CVS version. Abel
