[sane-devel] ScanJet 5300c

[Rene Rebe]

Hi,

On Saturday 21 October 2006 01:14, Endicott Lovell wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently started using Linux, and have been trying to get my scanner
> to work for quite some time. I have an HP ScanJet 5300c. I am running
> sane 1.0.18 and sane-frontends 1.0.14.
>
> The sane website says that this scanner is fully supported. I have been
> able to find it with sane-find-scanner. It lists as:
>
> "found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0701) at libusb:001:006"
>
> However, when i try running scanimage it says i don't have any devices.
> I enabled the scanner in the avision backend. ( i uncommented the line
> "usb 0x03f0 0x0701")
>
> It hasn't worked after this either. I've tried it under both Fedora Core
> 5 and ArchLinux 7.2.1
>
> Any insight would be very appreciated.

Maybe the hpusb kernel module is loaded or you do not have access rights for 
the usb device (try as root to  verify).

Yours,

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