Hi folks! Just to let everyone know after about the 7,858,939,058th :-) google I found something that REALLY helped get me going!
http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/gentoo.2004.0.html The big secret was that I had to build sane/sane backends with: USE="usb" emerge sane-backends After that the scanner showed up and works GREAT! Happy, happy, joy, joy :-) :-) :-) ! Now I can dump the w98 partition with extreme prejudice and save that plustek for a trip to the shooting range :-). Klaus: Especially, thanks for the encouragement to keep me plugging away at it, turns out to have been well worth it. Really nice scanner under linux! Thanks & take care es 73, V. -- Victoria Welch, WV9K/7. "If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" --Albert Einstein "Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get."- Jerry Avins
