Ok, thanks. I just tried this driver and it seems to be more promising. Although I would appreciate if anybody can provide me with the windows-firmware file this driver seems to need ... (the readme states it is called gt680xfw.usb, but since I don't have windows...)
Franky On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:50:01 +0100 Henning Meier-Geinitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 12:22:22PM +0100, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote: > > (system: redhat 7.2, 2.4.9-13 kernel) > > I just bought this usb scanner (medion md 9458, an "aldi" scanner) but > > I am not able to get it to work. When I do "/cat/proc/usb/devices" I > > see the vendor type is 0x05d8 and the product is 0x4002. > > That's the same as the Mustek 1200UB Plus and BearPaw 1200 CU. There > is no SANE backend for these scanners. See > http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/scanners.html#1200UBPLUS > > > Now I've searched the > > list and this seems to be the lifetec thingie. So I added the > > following to my modules.conf: ptions scanner vendor=0x05d8 > > product=0x4002 and I tried: > > > > /sbin/modprobe scanner vendor=0x05d8 product=0x4002 > > If you put the options in modules.conf you don't need them with > modprobe. The scanner module can't detect this scanner, because... > > > 5d8:4002 scanner.c: probe_scanner: Only two or three endpoints > > supported. scanner.c: USB Scanner support registered. > > It supports only two (bulk in, out) or three (bulk in, out, interrupt) > endpoits. This scanner has only one endpoint (bulk in(?)). > > There is a project for a similar scanner. The last time I tried the > kernel module detected my scanner but I couldn't scan. > http://www.btinternet.com/~salet/ > > Bye, > Henning > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >
