Hello Guys, I installed Suse Linux 9.1 with SANE 1.0.13 two weeks ago and I am now trying to get my scanner HP ScanJet 5300C to work, but unfortunately without any success up to now. I searched with Google and found many hints how to get a HP ScanJet 5300C to work with SANE, but I was either too stupid to apply the hints or they did not work at all. Because I am quite new in the Linux business, I probably do not know where to look and which information you might need to help me, but I try my best.
As I have said, I am using Suse Linux 9.1 (kernel 2.6.5) SANE 1.0.13 SANE-FIND-SCANNER as root: found SCSI scanner "HP ScanJet 5300C 6.00" at /dev/sg0 # Your SCSI scanner was detected. It may or may not be supported by SANE. Try # scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0701) at libusb:003:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports can't be # detected by this program. SCANIMAGE -L as root: device `avision:/dev/sg0' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5300C flatbed scanner ***************************************** SANE-FIND-SCANNER as user: # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0701) at libusb:003:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports can't be # detected by this program. # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as # necessary. SCANIMAGE -L as user: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). ************************************** Obviously, SCANIMAGE does only detect a SCSI scanner, but I connected my scanner with USB and I even do not have a SCSI port in my PC. Also as a normal user SCANIMAGE does not find any scanner which seems to be an authorization problem. But when I start e. g. XSANE (0.92) I receive the message "no devices available" and the program closes again (it does not matter if I run it as root or as normal user). It seems to me, that SCANIMAGE does not really detect my scanner even if it displays that it has found one (avision:/dev/sg0). Does anyone know what I can do to force SCANIMAGE to detect my scanner? If you need further information about my setup, please feel free to contact me and tell me what information you need. I would appreciate your help very much as I do not want to go back to Windows only to get my scanner to work. ;-) With best regards, Thomas
