[sane-devel] epson 1240u doesnt work with new slack 8.1

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 08:37:26AM +0200, luk wrote:
> i have just installed successfullt the new slack 8.1.
> The only thing that doesnt work is my scanner epson 1240u which is perfectly
> linux-compatible (and in fact it's been recognized immediately by every
> other distro, including rh, mandrake, suse, libranet ecc).
> With slack, i tried scanning from the command line but all i got was the
> message "scanimage:no SANE device found" which its obviously not true, since
> i did all the homework setting the right USB entries on the kernel compiling
> and even created " mknod /dev/usbscanner c 180 48" but after booting
> successfully the new kernel the result is the same: it doesn't "see" my
> scanner.
> Any help?

If the kernel doesn't see your scanner, you should tell him, for what
to look :-) Have a look at the output of "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices".
You should find a lines like that:

T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=055f ProdID=0006 Rev= 1.00
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=496mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbscanner
E:  Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=   2 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   1 Ivl=1ms

That's for a Mustek scanner, but Epson should look similar. If there
is a "Driver=(none)", your USB system has detected the scanner, but
ther scanner driver hasn't. In this case note the vendor and device
ids (from line "P:") and try:

rmmod scanner; modprobe scanner vendor=0x055f product=0x0006

Use your ids instead the Mustek ones. Try cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
again.

Now sane-find-scanner should find your scanner. Ream man sane-epson
and edit epson.conf.

By the way, the "unable to access minor data" errors can be ignored.

Bye,
  Henning