[sane-devel] Scanner Basics

[Karl F. Larsen]

There are some corrections to the original message typos.

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Karl F. Larsen wrote:

> 
> 	If you load Red Hat 8.0 Linux and look around you will see a Sane
> button under Imaging and it's so easy to just click this and in general it
> comes up and you say yes to the license thing and then it says "can't find
> Scanner".
> 
> 	Now what?
> 
> 	If your very persistent you will join the Sane list and be told a
> lot of stuff that is good but confusing. Then your told the secret. The
> secret is to divide and win. The first thing to do is make sure Sane can
> FIND the scanner. 
> 
> 	The writers of Sane made a very important tool. It is software
> called "sane-find-scanner". This software lets you divide the problem into
> parts. Now I don't care whether my scanner works, I'm just going to make
> sure SANE CAN FIND MY SCANNER.
> 
> 	The next step is to look for the scanner. In a Terminal window make
> it a super user with su- and provide your root password. Now type this:
> 
> 		sane-find-scanner <Enter>
> 
> It will either print out some words but have zero information, or it will
> find the scanner. The out put when a scanner is found looks like this:
> 
> # Note that sane-find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected
> # to a SCSI bus and some scanners that are connected to the Universal
> # Serial Bus (USB) depending on your OS. It will even find scanners
> # that are not supported at all by SANE. It won't find a scanner that
> # is connected to a parallel or proprietary port.
> 
> # You may want to run this program as super-user to find all devices.
> # Once you found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access
> # permissions as necessary.
> 
> sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = 0x010f) 
> at device /dev/usb/scanner0
> 
> 	Please notice that the last line that starts sane-find-scanner:
> lists all the data about your scanner so you KNOW Sane has found the scanner
> you want to use. Of course This is my scanner and it's plugged into the
> first USB port /dev/usb/scanner0
> 
> 	Now to get to this happy point you will need to do perhaps a lot of
> things. There is a lot of help in the manuals you can reach by typing man
> sane in your terminal. Depending on the type of scanner you will need to do
> some tricky stuff. First read man sane and it will lead you to, in my case
> man-usb. There I learned how to find out the numbers that represent my
> scanner. 
> 
> 	Then I tried to remove the scanner module with "rmmod scanner" and
> discovered it was not even loaded! I then did cat /proc/bus/usb/devices and
> learned my Epson scanner has the number 0x04b8 and my model is 0x010f. 
Then
> following the information in the man page I used modprobe to load scanner
> with the scanner data. It looks like:
> 
> 	modprobe scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x010f
> 
> Before I did this sane-find-scanner found nothing. After it found my
> scanner. I will put this line into the /ect/rc.d/rc.local file so I don't
> have to type it in every time.
> 
> 	So my new condition is this: My scanner still does not work, but now
> I know Sane does find my scanner, and now the question is why does it not
> work?
>   
> 
> 

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