[sane-devel] Sane Epson Backend

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

Did you configure the scanner in epson.conf? You need a line
usb /dev/usb/scanner0
in this file (and make sure that you are editing the copy of
the file that's actually used by Sane).

Karl Heinz

Pierre SOUCHAY said:
> Hi,
>
> I've got the same problem, try to specify the device on the command
> line. i.e:
>  xsane epson:/dev/usb/scanner0 or
>  scanimage -d epson:/dev/usb/scanner0
>
> I notice the problem also occurs when using saned daemon, I have to
> specify on  the command line :
>  xsane net:host:epson:/dev/usb/scanner0
>
> I suppose it is due to the USB (it works fine for me with SCSI scanners)
>
> Regards.
>
> Pierre Souchay
>
> Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 05:58, Jesus A. Orosco a écrit :
>> Greetings All,
>>
>> I am currently using FreeBSD 4.7 as my os, and recently purchased and
>> Epson 1660 USB color scanner.  My hope was to purchase a scanner that
>> was compatiable with Sane Backends.  All the lists that I search for
>> say that the backends will work with my scanner.  I have run the
>> ‘sane-find-scanner’ utility and it returns the following:
>>
>>             Found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x011e) at
>> libusb:/dev/usb0:/dev/ugen0
>>
>> The next few lines go on to say that a USB device was detected but
>> that it can’t be sure that it’s a scanner to try ‘scanimage –L’.  So I
>> do and it returns the following:
>>
>>             No scanners were identified.  If you were expecting
>> something different check that the scanner is plugged 

>>
>> When I pull the USB cable out from the back of the computer it returns
>> the following:
>>
>>             ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
>>             ugen0: detached
>>
>> When I plug the USB cable back in it returns the following:
>>
>>             Ugen0: EPSON EPSON Scanner, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2
>>
>> What gives?  Any ideas anyone?  Please help.
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