Oliver Schwartz <Oliver.Schwartz at gmx.de> writes: > Hi, > > I assume you are using the snapscan backend. In this case: > >> My Epson 3490 works just fine if the firm ware is loaded from a >> Windows >> box first. I also have located the binary that needs to be loaded. >> >> Is there a bash command I can run to manually load the binary file >> into >> the scanner? >> >> Would something like: >> >> echo esfw52.bin > some device >> >> Work? > > No. You need to edit snapscan.conf (either in /etc/sane.d or /usr/ > local/etc/sane.d, depending on you setup and add the fully qualified > filename of esfw52.bin to the "firmware" line, e.g. > > firmware=/var/lib/sane/esfw52.bin
And if that sounds too scary and you are running a i386 system, you could also use the iscan RPMs available via: http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/scan/DL1.do Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen FLOSS Engineer -- EPSON AVASYS Corporation FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/
