[sane-devel] Problems getting my scanimage to list my Epson 2400

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:05:54 +0200


Hi,

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:28:14PM -0700, Stan wrote:
> that worked perfectly.. thank you so much.
> 
> But out of curiosity.. What's happening now?
> was there some disconnect between sane and the kernel?

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean exactly. The command
"modprobe scanner vendor=..." tells the kernel scanner driver that the
device with those ids is a scanner. The driver has a fixed lists of
scanners and obviously it can't know new scanners. There is no way to
find out if a device is a scanner without that list so if the scanner
is not known, you must give a hint to the scanner driver.

Bye,
  Henning