[sane-devel] Scanner Basics

[Karl F. Larsen]

It's still wrong Gene. But I will correct it and see if that's the 
problem!

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Saturday 16 November 2002 09:04, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> >If you load Red Hat 8.0 Linux and look around you will see a Sane
> >button under Imaging and it's so easy to just click this and in
> > general it comes up and you say yes to the license thing and then
> > it says "can't find Scanner".
> >
> >	Now what?
> >
> >	If your very persistent you will join the Sane list and be told a
> >lot of stuff that is good but confusing. Then your told the
> > secret. The secret is to divide and win. The first thing to do is
> > make sure Sane can FIND the scanner.
> >
> >	The writers of Sane made a very important tool. It is software
> >called "sane-find-scanner". This software lets you divide the
> > problem into parts. Now I don't care whether my scanner works,
> > I'm just going to make sure SANE CAN FIND MY SCANNER.
> >
> >	The next step is to look for the scanner. In a Terminal window
> > make it a super user with su- and provide your root password. Now
> > type this:
> >
> >		sane-find-scanner <Enter>
> >
> >It will either print out some words but have zero information, or
> > it will find the scanner. The out put when a scanner is found
> > looks like this:
> >
> ># Note that sane-find-scanner will find any scanner that is
> > connected # to a SCSI bus and some scanners that are connected to
> > the Universal # Serial Bus (USB) depending on your OS. It will
> > even find scanners # that are not supported at all by SANE. It
> > won't find a scanner that # is connected to a parallel or
> > proprietary port.
> >
> ># You may want to run this program as super-user to find all
> > devices. # Once you found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust
> > access # permissions as necessary.
> >
> >sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product =
> > 0x010f) at device /dev/usb/scanner0
> >
> >	Please notice that the last line that starts sane-find-scanner:
> >lists all the data about your scanner so you KNOW Sane has found
> > the scanner you want to use. Of course This is my scanner and
> > it's plugged into the first USB port /dev/usb/scanner0
> >
> >	Now to get to this happy point you will need to do perhaps a lot
> > of things. There is a lot of help in the manuals you can reach by
> > typing man sane in your terminal. Depending on the type of
> > scanner you will need to do some tricky stuff. First read man
> > sane and it will lead you to, in my case man-usb. There I learned
> > how to find out the numbers that represent my scanner.
> >
> >	Then I tried to remove the scanner module with "rmmod scanner"
> > and discovered it was not even loaded! I then did cat
> > /proc/bus/usb/devices and learned my Epson scanner has the number
> > 0x04b8 and my model is 0x01f. Then following the information in
> > the man page I used modprobe to load scanner with the scanner
> > data. It looks like:
> >
> >	modprobe scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x01f
> Unforch, you've miss-typed it twice now, product=0x010f
> 
> >Before I did this sane-find-scanner found nothing. After it found
> > my scanner. I will put this line into the /ect/rc.d/rc.local file
> > so I don't have to type it in every time.
> >
> >	So my new condition is this: My scanner still does not work, but
> > now I know Sane does find my scanner, and now the question is why
> > does it not work?
> 
> Did you actually enter the product=0x010f wrongly in your rc.local 
> file?
> 

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