Re: Howto get an usb scanner working under linux 2.6.3

[Joris Huizer <jorishuizer@planet.nl>]

James Tappin wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:22:55 +0100
> Joris Huizer <jorishuizer@planet.nl> wrote:
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to get my scanner to work under linux 2.6.3; It used to work 
> > fine under 2.4.24 but it turns out the scanner module was remove in 2.6
> >
> > Can anybody tell me how to get the scanner to work? I tried something 
> > with libusb but it won't work; I followed 
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200403/msg01116.html
> > - but running sane-find-scanner under linux 2.6.3 didn't show any 
> > scanners even though it should've found the scanner as it was on; So I 
> > got the data under 2.4.24 and continued -- but no luck (I also tried 
> > following the other hints in that thread)
> > Also /proc/bus/usb doesn't show anything at all (no files there)
>
>
> Sounds as if you haven't got usbdevfs and usbfs enabled or at least
> operational
> try adding:
> none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults  0  0
> to /etc/fstab and then doing "mount -a"
>
> The other possible gotcha is an old sane installation in /usr/local,
> although that wouldn't prevent /proc/bus/usb having the devices.

No I don't have sane just xsane (and libsane) and none of it is 
self-compiled and nothing by the name "*sane*" shows up in /usr/local

> > Is there a known way to find this epson (epson perfection 1650) under 
> > 2.6 ? Did I forget to put in a module in this 2.6.3 kernel? I could go 
> > back to 2.4.24 if support really is gone but I'd prefer getting this 
> > last hardware problem solved :p
>
>
> After I'd killed the old sane in /usr/local my 1660 (basically the same
> thing + slide unit) was fine.

Could you explain the steps to get support in 2.6.3 the way you got it 
working? xsane still doesn't find the scanner

thank you

Joris