<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body><div data-crea="font-wrapper" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr"><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px"></div>On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 16:28, Kelly Price <strredwolf@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote><div>I would highly recommend a powered hub to guarantee full power to the<br>scanner, and a (surge-protected) power strip to get your PC's power in<br>reach.<br><br>The sane-release PPA has "scanimage" in its packages. That hasn't<br>changed. And yes, they're for 22.04.<br></div></blockquote><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Kelly,</span></div><div><span>first of all, thanks for the PPA confirmation. As far as hardware goes...</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>The surge-protected power strip already is under the desk, but as I said it is already full.</span></div><div><span>And a longer/wider one would not fit... But OK, will find a solution to that somehow.<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>But about the active hub: is it OK to do this (just because it would be the easiest/simplest</span></div><div><span>solution, given the cramped desk I have):<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>PC -> existing passive hub -> new active hub -> scanner ??? <br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Thanks for your patience, I'm almost there...</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Marco<br></span></div><blockquote><div><a target="_blank" href="http://redwolf.ws"></a></div></blockquote></div></body></html>