[sane-devel] Fujitsu S1500 unable to stay connected

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Chris Glasoe writes:

> I am not sure if I am making progress on this or not.
>  
> I noticed that running xsane shows that no scanner is found.  Yet
> running usb-devices shows that the scanner is connected to Bus=3 Lev=7
> and running lsusb shows Bus 003 Device 007: ID 04c5:11a2 Fujitsu, Ltd.
>  
> So in my limited understanding the scanner is recognized as plugged
> into a USB port.
>  
> While searching for more information I stumbled on a post (I can’t
> remember where) that suggested running modprobe scanner.  The response
> is FATAL: Module scanner not found.
>  
> [snip]
> Two questions (I am running OpenSuSE 13.1);
>  
> To the modprobe scanner, should there be a scanner module?  It seems
> logical that there should be at least to me.

There used to be a scanner kernel module.  It was no longer maintained
towards the end of the 2.4.x kernels and removed in the one of the early
2.6.x kernels, 2.6.3 IIRC.  Considering that you are probably running a
3.11.6 kernel, there is *no* scanner module (nor should there be one).

Hope this helps,
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