> I'm about ready to give up on this approach, and simply expect that if I want > to use my scanner, I'll have to do it from Window$. This sane stuff is driving > me IN-sane.
If it's that bad, consider upgrading to SuSE 8.0. This scanner gave me one of the best hardware experiences ever: plug in and go. (This device-ID problem was not an issue, but I am in New Zealand, perhaps the scanners sold here are a little different?) Linux-USB has a somewhat bad reputation, I have trouble with my USB printer locking up 90% through a 3EUR-ink-job. Buggy USB software. It is entirely possible that the newer kernel of 8.0 has better USB support. You could just install the 8.0 kernel if you don't want to upgrade the whole way, it's 1 wget and 1 rpm -Uvh. Beats using M$ for scanning... Can you test that scanner with a different USB cable on a different Linux box, to exclude hardware issues? Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.orcon.net.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
