I looked into using up2date to update the FC3 package - I am restricted (financially) to a dialup line ($7.50/month versus $30.00/month for DSL - for a working stiff that may not sound like much, but for somebody on disability, unable to work, fixed income with fuel prices skyrocketing, that is a LOT). To download the multi-hundreds of Megabytes in the updates is simply not feasible in a single dAY. I could packup the machine, check into a local Marroitt with high speed internet access (providing the access works on FC3) and do the update there :-).
I was considering having a friend with high speed access at work download the total update package(s) and burn CDs for me. Don't know if that is a feasible way to access the updates though. It seems that the "up2date" package only works online. I guess I will have to live with a broken FC3 until I can find another distro that isn't as badly broken or wait for FC4 - hopefully these problems will be fixed there since you indicate the updated FC3 fixes the problem. Unless, that is, somebody distributes the updates on CD-ROM, then I could use that. Thanks for your help. Terry On Sunday 15 May 2005 04:38 am, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 07:52:11PM -0400, Terry D. Boldt wrote: > > Read that already. In searching to solve the problem, I found that > > several days back. Unfortunately it does nothing to solve the problem. > > The README simply says that the files "libsane.usermap" and > > "libusbscanner" should be in /etc/hotplug/usb and they are. But they do > > nothing to elicudate the problem or solve the problem. The README further > > reads that the solution to the problem is simply to add the user(s) to > > the "scanner" group. > > I think Tim already pointed you to the solution of your problem. But > still: > > libusbscanner sets the permissions of the respective /proc/bus/usb... > file to group write/readable by the scanner group. So if you are in > group scanner, you should be able to access the scanner. > > Possible reasons for not working: > - No hotplug support in kernel > - scanner not listed in libsane.usermap > - someone has changed libusbscanner > > Bye, > Henning
