>I am new to SANE, so please excuse some of my ignorance. >I have a new Epson Perfection 1650 scanner and I am trying to use it >with a 2.4.19 kernel and the sane-backends-1.08 package. I have >uncommented the line: "usb /dev/usb/scanner0" line in >/usr/local/etc/sane.d/epson.conf. I have also included USB scanner >support as a kernel module. >/usr/local/bin/sane-find-scanner reports: >sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = >0x0110) at device /dev/usb/scanner0 >sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = >0x0110) at device /dev/usbscanner >I have set permissions to 666 on /dev/usb/scanner0 >If I run /usr/local/bin/scanimage -L the program just hangs. >/usr/local/bin/scanimage -d epson also hangs.
I have one of these scanners, and it works wonderfully on my RedHat Linux laptop. Only trick is that it isn't an Epson, it is a Plustek. Use the plustek backend and it should work.
