[sane-devel] medion scanner md 9458

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 12:22:22PM +0100, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> (system: redhat 7.2, 2.4.9-13 kernel)
> I just bought this usb scanner (medion md 9458, an "aldi" scanner) but I
> am not able to get it to work. When I do "/cat/proc/usb/devices" I see the
> vendor type is 0x05d8 and the product is 0x4002.

That's the same as the Mustek 1200UB Plus and BearPaw 1200 CU. There
is no SANE backend for these scanners. See
http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/scanners.html#1200UBPLUS

> Now I've searched the
> list and this seems to be the lifetec thingie. So I added the following to
> my modules.conf: ptions scanner vendor=0x05d8 product=0x4002
> and I tried:
> 
> /sbin/modprobe scanner vendor=0x05d8 product=0x4002

If you put the options in modules.conf you don't need them with
modprobe. The scanner module can't detect this scanner, because...

> 5d8:4002 scanner.c: probe_scanner: Only two or three endpoints supported.
> scanner.c: USB Scanner support registered.

It supports only two (bulk in, out) or three (bulk in, out, interrupt)
endpoits. This scanner has only one endpoint (bulk in(?)).

There is a project for a similar scanner. The last time I tried the
kernel module detected my scanner but I couldn't scan.
http://www.btinternet.com/~salet/

Bye,
  Henning