As Henning has already pointed out, you first have to make sure that the scanner is found by the USB scanner driver. I am working on a procedure description to get EPSON USB scanners to work. It's not done yet, but maybe it can provide some important pointers:
http://www.khk.net/sane/checklist.html Plese let me know if this helps, or if it does not, where you found problems. Karl Heinz > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:13:13AM +0100, riccardo ferraro wrote: >> I have SUSE 8.0 with SANE 1.0.7-59 and an Epson Perfection 1660 USB >> scanner. >> I've downloaded the last version of SANE from mostang/sane (both >> backend end frontend). I ran ./configure, make and make install on >> both without any error messages. ehmmmmmmm...... what have I got to >> do next ? >> I tried to use as usual YAST2 (SUSE's Setup tool), but I got an error >> message complaining that SANE was not found. Probably SUSE wants >> SANE's files in a different position with respect to the place where >> the installation put them ?!? > > I think Yast doesn't find SANE because you don't have SANE RPMs > installed. The paths shouldn't matter in this case. > >> BTW, I launched sane-find-scanner which did not find any scanner. With >> the default SUSE 8,0 configuration with SANE 1.0.7-59 >> sane-find-scanner finds my scanner as it should be. > > If sane-find-scanner doesn't find scanners it's usually either a > kernel or permission issue. You should make sure that the kernel > scanner driver module is loaded and detects your scanner. Have a look at > /proc/bus/usb/devices, ther should be a line with > "driver=usbscanner". If it's "driver=(none)", the scanner driver > hasn't found the scanner. See man sane-usb for details, also for > permission problems. > > Bye, > Henning > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel
