Re: where is thwe scanner device

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On 10/15/07, Dr. Harry Knitter <harry@knitter-edv-beratung.de> wrote:
> hello,
>
> my problem is that my scanner (Mustek BearPaw TA 2448 Pro) is not shown as
> device e.g. /dev/usb/scanner0 or /dev/usbscanner0.
> I already had it working once. However, now not even the device appears
> in /dev anymore.
> How can I get it back?
> I?m working with debian etch.

Have you read /usr/share/doc/libsane/README.linux.gz? This part seems relevant:

> With Linux 2.4.* you could either use the kernel scanner module or libusb to
> access USB scanners.  In Linux 2.6.4 the kernel scanner module was removed.
> Therefore with this and later kernels libusb must be used.

HTH

dt