[sane-devel] scanimage not working on Fedora 20, Epson Expression 11000xl

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

lefsky at gmail.com writes:

> I can't get beyond this point in my installation and am hoping one of you
> will be willing to lend a hand
>
> I have installed libsane and all related packages using both yum and from
> the sources as well, with the same result. Currently I've gone back to yum.
> Here are the results I've got so far:
>
> *sane-find-scanner* returns:
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x014b [Expression
> 11000XL]) at libusb:001:008
>
> *scanimage -V *results in:
>
> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.24; backend version 1.0.24

Uhm, the Expression 11000XL is not listed as supported for that
version[1].  You'll need to use the development version where it
has been added[2].

  [1] http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html
  [2] http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs-cvs.html

> *scanimage -L* *(with and without sudo)* results in:
>
> No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
> check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
> sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
> which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
>
> The *udev rules* appears to work:
> ----------------------------------------
> [/etc/udev/rules.d]$ ls /dev/bus/usb/001 -ltr
> total 0
> crw-rw-r--. 1 root root    189, 0 Nov 16 09:14 001
> crw-rw-r--. 1 root root    189, 1 Nov 16 09:14 002
> crw-rw-r--. 1 root root    189, 3 Nov 16 09:14 004
> crw-rw-r--. 1 root root    189, 5 Nov 16 09:14 006
> crw-rw-r--+ 1 root scanner 189, 7 Nov 16 10:37 008
>
> and my* groups* include scanner
>
> [/etc/udev/rules.d]$ groups
> #myname# wheel usbmon scanner

Apart from the sane-backends version you are using, everything else
looks fine.

> Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

Hope this helps,
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