Hello... Does your friend have SCSI support compiled into his kernel? Seems to me that could be the reason. Check if /proc/scsi contains info about connected interfaces.
John On 25 Dec 2002 08:47:32 +0900 David Blomberg <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend has asked me to help locate a problem he has on his new > Mandrake 9.0 system in which the system shows the scanner but XSANE does > not see it. in his own words: > > "My scanner is a vuego 310s. I installed it under win95. it works well > under win98se > I installed an interface card in an isa-bus slot and hooked the scanner > to the pc using an old fashioned scsi cable ... wide as distinct from > the modern ones which do not have > The Vuego is listed by Mandrake anderhardware > scanners > as su I set up the scenner using this program and was told scanner > installed use xsane to run it > when I hit the xsane button I got the response xsane: no devices > available > > so I went to SANE on the web and looked at sane-snapscan.5 (it lists > Vuego 310s) which I have printed out and am trying to understand > > eg DEVICE NAMES > This backend expects device namse of the form: > special" > > I had him run sane-find-scanner which you can find the listing for in > "vuego.txt" and then being we are not sure which dev the scanner is > under I had him give me a listing of the /dev and sub-dirs (happy.txt) > If anyone has any help to offer please let me know as he really would > like to get this fixed. > > Thank You > > David Blomberg > [email protected] > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel
