[sane-devel] command for stupid people?

[Oliver Schwartz]

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

Regards,

Oliver