[sane-devel] HP 7450C USB scanner failure with ADF

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,
> Then I rebooted to determine if the scanner would be detected as a usb
> device.  The hardware browser still showed no browser, and xsane found
> no scanner device on startup.
> 
> How can I get the scanner recognized as a USB device?

That's done automatically. If it's not detected as USB device by the
kernel, it can't be used by hpusbscsi.

Is it found by sane-find-scanner as root?
Is it found by scanimage -L as root?
If yes, you may need to set up permissions for libusb correctly.
That's explained in man sane-usb.

bye,
  Henning