[sane-devel] USB scanner and mounting usbdevfs with devmode 0666

Michael Herder crapsite@gmx.net
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:33:19 +0200


Am Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2002 10:15 schrieb Henning Meier-Geinitz:
> > While it's possible to mount usbdevfs with devmode=0666 (the number of
> > the beast ?:-) on all SuSE system, it fails with Caldera, i.e.
> > permissions still look like this:
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     root           18 Oct 24  2002
> > /proc/bus/usb/001/001 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root           18 Oct 24 
> > 2002 /proc/bus/usb/001/002 after mount -av returns
...
> Debian Sarge, kernel 2.4.20-pre10: no problems.
>
> Maybe kernel 2.4.2 is just too old and the mount option wasn't
> included in that kernel version.

Hm, it works with 2.2.20 !? It's really hard, to tell users how to install an 
usb scanner, if every system behaves differently :-(

bb
Michael