I have reported this to our Mandrakesoft kernel guys, so next Mandrakelinux version (10.2) should not have this problem any more.
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12891 For now, simply remove or rename the module on your system. Till Rene Rebe wrote: > Hi, > > we should remove hpusbscsi from the Kernel. It is long obsolete and very > unstable. I can send a patch for 2.4 and 2.6 (if needed) ;-) > > George Garvey wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:11:30PM -0800, Thomas Frayne wrote: > > > ... > >> As far as I know, Rene has made it pretty clear he doesn't want to >> use hpusbscsi with the avision driver. He prefers libusb. > > > Yes. Hpusbscsi has many drawbacks. The major ones are: > > - does not work with new scanners (that are designed for USB 2.0) > - it is highly instable (e.g. during an i/o error it locks up > quite easily and leaves the (usb sub-)system in a state that > needs a reboot ... > > The later problem made me add the user-space i/o code to the > SANE/Avision backend, because I had to reboot my system every 5 minutes > during development ... > > Yours, >
