[sane-devel] Epson Photo 4490 Scanner

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Claude Sutton <claudesutton at suttonmachine.com> writes:

> I followed Olaf's instructions and after the reinstall, no contact with the
> scanner.
>
> So I ran sane-find-scanner and:
>
>> sane-find-scanner returns the following and I have no idea what to do
>> with
>> the information.
>>
>>
>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x0c88, product=0x17da) at libusb:006:002
>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x0483 [STMicroelectronics], product=0x2016
>> [Biometric Coprocessor]) at libusb:004:003
>
>
> I have an Epson Photo 4490 scanner.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion as to what to try next?

Have you installed the non-free i386-only iscan-plugin-gt-x750 package?
Without it, the scanner is not supported by the epkowa backend which
comes as part of iscan.

Hope this helps,
-- 
Olaf Meeuwissen             FLOSS Engineer -- EPSON AVASYS Corporation
FSF Associate Member #1962           sign up at http://member.fsf.org/
GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97  976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90
Penguin's lib!       -- I hack, therefore I am --               LPIC-2