[sane-devel] HP Scanjet C6270A on Redhat 6.2

[Wolfgang Rapp]

Peter Kirchgessner schrieb:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> mailtoarvind wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >      The problem is my scanner is connected to USB port on my toshiba laptop.
> 
> > My operating system(Redhat 6.2 kernel 2.2.14) is not recognizing the scanner(HP C6270 A)
> 
> > and i know that some module is not loaded which makes kernel to recognize the device but i do not
> 
> > know which module to load and where i can find it.
> 
> sorry, I forgot that 2.2.x-kernels are not very good with USB. I would
> not recommend to try a kernel less than 2.4.0 with USB.
> 
Update the kernel to at least 2.2.19. There are RPMS for it on RedHat
Download. Usable USB
support in the 2.2. kernel is from 2.2.18. 
You have to load USB scanner module scanner.o and make a dev mknod
usbscanner c 180 48
I am running Agfa Snapscan E26 USB on RedHat 6.0 with sane 1.0.7 without
problems.

Bye Wolfgang