[sane-devel] sane-find-scanners - scanning for USB gives error messages

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Tue, 6 Nov 2001 23:00:39 +0100


Hi,

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:15:26PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> RH 7.1, sane-1.0.6:   
> 
> Scanner is a Mustek 1200 USB Plus
> 
> # sane-find-scanner >l
> [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of sanei_usb to 1.

This should only happen if you did "export SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=1"
befor calling sane-find-scanner.
If you use "sane-find-scanner -v", you can see which files couldn't be
opened.

> [sanei_usb] sanei_usb_open: open failed: No such file or directory

/dev/usb/scanner? doesn't exist ... no problem.

> Any clues?

No scanners were found. Maybe the Linux kernel scanner module wasn't
loaded or couldn't detect the scanner?

Bye,
  Henning