[ale] usb scanner -- SUCCESS!!

[Geoffrey]

Chris, I've had success in getting my scanner to work with RH8.0.  It 
was a bit of work though.  Here's what I did:

1. I noted that RH identified the scanner but made the same wrong 
entries in /etc/sane.d/hp.conf that SuSE had done for my scanner.  This 
file now looks like this:

option connect-device
/dev/usbscanner

2. RH had placed the device entry, '/dev/scanner' in the above 
referenced file.  There was no such device.  So as to mimic my SuSE 
install, I created a /dev/usbscanner device as follows:

mknod /dev/usbscanner c 180 48

Once I did this, ls -l /dev/usbscanner yields:

crwxrwxrwx    1 root     root     180,  48 May 10 11:25 /dev/usbscanner

Now when I execute 'scanimage --list-devices I get a bunch of errors 
apparently from scanimage scanning for the proper device followed by:

device 'hp:/dev/usbscanner' is a Hewlett-Packard MODELx flatbed scanner

That's good.  I then actually scanned a document successfully.

Give this approach a try Chris and see if it works for you.

I will say this, this is a black eye for Linux when it takes this much 
work to get a scanner to work.  Both SuSE and RedHat improperly identify 
and configure the scanner.  Fortunately for me, SuSE required no more 
then modifying the sane.d config file.  RH reguired mknod, which 
certainly is not a tool for the novice.

I would suspect that a novice user would not get either OS to properly 
install the scanner.




-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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