[sane-devel] Problem in detecting usb scanner

[Giuseppe Sacco]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:30:20 +1000 Nick Andrew <nick at nick-andrew.net> wrote:
[...]
> >  finally, why lsusb does not list the scanner?
> > giuseppe at sgi:~$ sudo lsusb
> > Password:
> > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001  
> > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001  
> > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001  
> 
> This might be the source of your problem. Old kernel? Somebody else
> mentioned firmware. Mine shows:
> 
> # lsusb
> Bus 002 Device 009: ID 04b8:0110 Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1650

I agree with you: probably this is the problem. But it is not related to the kernel version since I am using 2.6.26.

Bye,
Giuseppe