[sane-devel] sane-find-scanner no longer finding scanner on mdk8.1

[Yves Duret]

sane at michael.mailshell.com writes:

> I have a Cannon FS2710:
> 
> [root at corwin@mir scsi]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: CANON    Model: IX-27025E        Rev: 1.13
>   Type:   Scanner                          ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: RICOH    Model: CD-R/RW MP7040A  Rev: 1.1k
>   Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 
> This dir has nothing in it: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0
> 
> It worked fine until I reinstalled Mandrake 8.1. Now sane-find-scanner no longer detects it. I did have it running with Mdk8.0 under the same kernel... I have no clue how to make entries in /dev (other than sym links), and I thought the devfs junk was suppose to do that transparently. 

and if you boot without devfs (devfs=nomount at lilo/grub prompt) with your
8.1 ?
thx
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Yves Duret
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