thewade wrote: > Bertrik Sikken wrote: > > >>thewade wrote: >> >> >>>Hello most generous OpenSource developers! >>> >>>I am trying to get my old Acer Prisa USB scanner working with my >>>new AMD64 laptop running Fedora Core 2 and standard linux kernel >>>2.6.10-lsm. I had the scanner working on my old Pentium 3 laptop >>>running Fedora Core 1 and standard kernel 2.6.4 but I configured >>>that kernel so long ago I cannot remember what I did kernel >>>options I used to get the scanner working. My >>>/etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf is exactly the same and my u96v121.bin >>>is there too. >> >> >>Some time ago, sane used the scanner kernel module to communicate >>over USB with quite a lot of USB scanners. Nowadays, the scanner >>kernel module has been removed from the kernel and sane now uses >>libusb. Libusb in turn relies on the usbfs virtual file system >>in /proc/bus/usb. > > > ls /proc/bus/usb lists as empty with the scanner on. > > /var/log/messages says: > Mar 15 13:14:40 musicbox kernel: usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using > ohci_hcd and address 2 > > lsusb -v doesnt seem to work, giving me nothing but: > Unknown line at line 4969 > Where the number of the line changes, going up to 5004 > > dmesg | grep usb tells me (among other things): > usbcore: registered new driver usbfs > usbcore: registered new driver hub > usbcore: registered new driver hiddev > usbcore: registered new driver usbhid > drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver > > But on boot I remeber seeing usbdevfs not supported by kernel or > something. Could this be becasue the module isint loaded yet?
Ah! I think usbdevfs has been renamed because it was easily confused with devfs. Its new name is usbfs. So try looking for any instances of usbdevfs in bootscripts or in /etc/fstab and replace it with usbfs. Regards, Bertrik
