[sane-devel] Visioneer 5800

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:30:22AM +0000, jollyprince at juno.com wrote:
> 
> I'm a newbie who just got his USB printer working and decided to tackle the scanner next.  So far I've found the Vendor number and Product ID and inserted them into the modules.conf file.
> 
> QUESTION: Is it a foregone conclusion that I need to recompile the kernel next or is there a scanner install that does not require kernel recompile?

Many of the modern drivers use libusb rather than a specific scanner module,
so specific scanner modules are becoming a thing of the past. As long as you
have usbfs compiled in, you should be fine.

-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog at svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> "the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or
> religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.
> Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
>   - Samuel P. Huntington
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