Hi, On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 08:37:26AM +0200, luk wrote: > i have just installed successfullt the new slack 8.1. > The only thing that doesnt work is my scanner epson 1240u which is perfectly > linux-compatible (and in fact it's been recognized immediately by every > other distro, including rh, mandrake, suse, libranet ecc). > With slack, i tried scanning from the command line but all i got was the > message "scanimage:no SANE device found" which its obviously not true, since > i did all the homework setting the right USB entries on the kernel compiling > and even created " mknod /dev/usbscanner c 180 48" but after booting > successfully the new kernel the result is the same: it doesn't "see" my > scanner. > Any help?
If the kernel doesn't see your scanner, you should tell him, for what to look :-) Have a look at the output of "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices". You should find a lines like that: T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=055f ProdID=0006 Rev= 1.00 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=496mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbscanner E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 2 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 1 Ivl=1ms That's for a Mustek scanner, but Epson should look similar. If there is a "Driver=(none)", your USB system has detected the scanner, but ther scanner driver hasn't. In this case note the vendor and device ids (from line "P:") and try: rmmod scanner; modprobe scanner vendor=0x055f product=0x0006 Use your ids instead the Mustek ones. Try cat /proc/bus/usb/devices again. Now sane-find-scanner should find your scanner. Ream man sane-epson and edit epson.conf. By the way, the "unable to access minor data" errors can be ignored. Bye, Henning
