What kind of scanner is it?  To get my Epson USB scanner working, I had to
pass some args to the scanner.o module telling it what type of scanner it
was, something like vendor=xxx and type=xxx.  Should be on the page for
Sane.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Meyerhoff [mailto:rick at eworld3.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:39 PM
> To: TCLUG
> Subject: [TCLUG] scanner help needed
> 
> 
> Someone at the last installfest gave me a USB scanner but I have not 
> been able to get it working. I have never worked with any 
> scanner before.
> 
> I am running Mandrake 9.1 & I installed SANE. I've read all the man 
> pages and searched the web but I can't figure out why it does 
> not work.
> 
> - When I turn on the scanner, I get an Xsane icon on my desktop.
> 
> - The Mandrake control center, ScannerDrake sees the scanner.
> 
> - SANE supports the scanner.
> 
> - The device gets created:
> $ ll /dev/usb
> total 0
> crw-rw----    1 rick     usb      180,  48 Dec 31  1969 scanner0
> drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Dec 31  1969 tts/
> 
> - When I try to use Xsane, it says:
> "Failed to open device 'snapscan:/dev/usb/scanner0': Invalid argument"
> 
> - scanimage is similarly unhappy:
> $ scanimage
> [snapscan] download_firmware: No firmware entry found in config file 
> snapscan.conf.
> scanimage: open of device snapscan:/dev/usb/scanner0 failed: Invalid 
> argument
> 
> I can't figure out what argument it is talking about?
> -- 
> Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff
> rick at eworld3.net
> 952-929-1659
> 
> 
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