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

[lefsky at gmail.com]

Olaf had it write- I needed to upgrade to 1.0.025 and it worked.



On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp>
wrote:

> 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,
> --
> Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2           FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION
> FSF Associate Member #1962               Help support software freedom
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>



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