On Saturday 16 November 2002 09:04, Karl F. Larsen wrote: >If you load Red Hat 8.0 Linux and look around you will see a Sane >button under Imaging and it's so easy to just click this and in > general it comes up and you say yes to the license thing and then > it says "can't find Scanner". > > Now what? > > If your very persistent you will join the Sane list and be told a >lot of stuff that is good but confusing. Then your told the > secret. The secret is to divide and win. The first thing to do is > make sure Sane can FIND the scanner. > > The writers of Sane made a very important tool. It is software >called "sane-find-scanner". This software lets you divide the > problem into parts. Now I don't care whether my scanner works, > I'm just going to make sure SANE CAN FIND MY SCANNER. > > The next step is to look for the scanner. In a Terminal window > make it a super user with su- and provide your root password. Now > type this: > > sane-find-scanner <Enter> > >It will either print out some words but have zero information, or > it will find the scanner. The out put when a scanner is found > looks like this: > ># Note that sane-find-scanner will find any scanner that is > connected # to a SCSI bus and some scanners that are connected to > the Universal # Serial Bus (USB) depending on your OS. It will > even find scanners # that are not supported at all by SANE. It > won't find a scanner that # is connected to a parallel or > proprietary port. > ># You may want to run this program as super-user to find all > devices. # Once you found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust > access # permissions as necessary. > >sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = > 0x010f) at device /dev/usb/scanner0 > > Please notice that the last line that starts sane-find-scanner: >lists all the data about your scanner so you KNOW Sane has found > the scanner you want to use. Of course This is my scanner and > it's plugged into the first USB port /dev/usb/scanner0 > > Now to get to this happy point you will need to do perhaps a lot > of things. There is a lot of help in the manuals you can reach by > typing man sane in your terminal. Depending on the type of > scanner you will need to do some tricky stuff. First read man > sane and it will lead you to, in my case man-usb. There I learned > how to find out the numbers that represent my scanner. > > Then I tried to remove the scanner module with "rmmod scanner" > and discovered it was not even loaded! I then did cat > /proc/bus/usb/devices and learned my Epson scanner has the number > 0x04b8 and my model is 0x01f. Then following the information in > the man page I used modprobe to load scanner with the scanner > data. It looks like: > > modprobe scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x01f Unforch, you've miss-typed it twice now, product=0x010f
>Before I did this sane-find-scanner found nothing. After it found > my scanner. I will put this line into the /ect/rc.d/rc.local file > so I don't have to type it in every time. > > So my new condition is this: My scanner still does not work, but > now I know Sane does find my scanner, and now the question is why > does it not work? Did you actually enter the product=0x010f wrongly in your rc.local file? -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.19% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
