[sane-devel] USB Boeder SmartScan on Debian Sarge

[Jim McQuillan]

Rodolfo,

It shows pretty clearly that you are missing the ps1fw.usb firmware file.

A quick search of google revealed that this file should be on the CDRom 
that came with the scanner, and also it's available from the 
gt68xx-backend web page at:

    http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/

Just search on that page for ps1fw.usb, and you'll find the link where 
you can grab the file from.

Once you have the file, drop it into the /usr/share/sane/gt68xx directory.


Hope that helps,

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org



Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I installed Sane on my Debian GNU/Linux system but apparently
> don't manage to make it work.
> After installing Sane with: `apt-get install sane', I did:
>
>  # sane-find-scanner
>
> and got the following output:
>
>  found USB scanner (vendor=0x05d8, product=0x4002, chip=GT-6801) at libusb:001:003
>
> . Then I did:
>
>  # scanimage -h
>
> , and:
>
>  [gt68xx] Couldn't open firmware file (neither `/usr/share/sane/gt68xx/PS1fw.usb' nor `/usr/share/sane/gt68xx/ps1fw.usb'): No such file or directory
>  scanimage: open of device gt68xx:libusb:001:003 failed: Invalid argument
>  Type ``scanimage --help -d DEVICE'' to get list of all options for DEVICE.
>
>  List of available devices:
>      gt68xx:libusb:001:003
>
>
> . Then I did:
>
>  # scanimage -d gt68xx:libusb:001:003 --format tiff > file.tif
>
> and:
>
>  [gt68xx] Couldn't open firmware file (neither `/usr/share/sane/gt68xx/PS1fw.usb' nor `/usr/share/sane/gt68xx/ps1fw.usb'): No such file or directory
>  scanimage: open of device gt68xx:libusb:001:003 failed: Invalid argument
>
>
> Could you Sane listers provide any help in order to make my USB
> Boeder SmartScan work?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rodolfo
>
>
>