[sane-devel] AGFA Spanscan E50 USB

[Oliver Schwartz]

Hi,

> >>Why do I have to provide the vendor and product to modprobe, I don't for
> >> my webcam?
> >
> >Your webcam isn't handled by the scanner module. In a later kernel version
> > you hopefully won't have to supply the IDs. Until the IDs of newer
> > scanners are added to the kernel, you have to supply them manually.
>
> Great explanation.
> Where in the kernel are the IDs?

In scanner.h (for 2.4 that's in drivers/usb). Before recompiling the kernel 
you may consider adding the ids to /etc/modules.conf instead (add a line 
"options scanner vendor=xxx product=yyy").

Regards,

Oliver