Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 05:31:08PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> Hi Debianologists,
> 
> This scanner is supposed to be fully supported by SANE.
> 
> When I plug it in, dmesg shows:
> 
> [460008.108261] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 26 using ehci_hcd
> [460008.202148] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=04b8, idProduct=010b
> [460008.202155] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
> [460008.202159] usb 1-1.2: Product: Perfection1240
> [460008.202163] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: EPSON
>  
> lsusb returns:
> 
> Bus 001 Device 026: ID 04b8:010b Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1240
> 
> But scanimage --list-devices only show my notebook camera.
> The notebook is a Lenovo T410. My kernel is recent 3.2 stock kernel.
> 
> Any ideas what to try?

Here are all the sane packages I've installed. 
I guess that I am missing the correct backend.
Or possibly, udev is not creating the USB device.

ii  libksane-data                                  4:4.8.4-1                          scanner library (data files)
ii  libsane                                        1.0.22-7.3                         API library for scanners
ii  libsane-common                                 1.0.22-7.3                         API library for scanners -- documentation and support files
ii  libsane-extras                                 1.0.22.2                           API library for scanners -- extra backends
ii  libsane-extras-common                          1.0.22.2                           API library for scanners -- documentation and support files
ii  libsane-hpaio                                  3.12.2-1                           HP SANE backend for multi-function peripherals
ii  libwine-sane                                   1.0.1-3.5                          Windows API implementation - scanner module
ii  sane                                           1.0.14-9                           scanner graphical frontends
ii  sane-utils                                     1.0.22-7.3                         API library for scanners -- utilities
ii  xsane                                          0.998-3+b1                         featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
ii  xsane-common                                   0.998-3                            featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)

 
> thanks,
> 
> Joel
> 
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> Joel Roth
> 
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