Jim MacLeod <j75t...@blueyonder.co.uk> writes: > [snip] I'm using Kubuntu Hoary on i386. > > I've cab-extracted esfw52.bin, put it /usr/bin and set firmware in > snapscan.conf to point to it, which I understand is the only other > requirement.
Hmm, I wouldn't put it in /usr/bin. Somewhere below /usr/local/share seems like a better place to me. > I had a look at libsane-extras in Breezy and it includes epkowa in the > description but I'm unsure whether this will run the 3490. Not yet. The epkowa backend will "support" this scanner as of iscan 1.17.0. It requires a non-free closed source plugin which will only be available for i386. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON AVASYS Corporation, LAN FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/ GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2