RE: Setting up a usb scanner

[Thomas Wegner <thomas_wegner@gmx.net>]

Hi!
On 09-Apr-2001 vdemart@supereva.it wrote:
> 
> Under debian potato 2.2r2 I've installed the Gimp and sane together
> with
> xscanimage and the sane plugins for gimp.
> Now I'm trying to set my epson 1240U usb scanner. I've followed the
> instruction given in linux-usb.org. step by step
> 1) I've issued mknod /usb/dev/scanner0 c 180 48
I think you mean /dev/usb/scanner0!

> 2) insmod usbcore, uhci (I've also a usb-uhci??? what's for?),
> scanner
> giving as options the product and vendor I can see listing
> /proc/bus/usb
> devices
> 3) starting sane it complains "no device etc." and stops loading.
I had the same problem because installing the device under
/dev/usbscanner. But your configuration seems to be correct. Do you
have configured /etc/sane.d/epson.conf? You must ad an entry like:
usb /dev/usb/scanner0.

Ciao....Thomas
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