[sane-devel] Benq S2W 4300U Scanner...

[Oliver Schwartz]

Hi,

On 02.02.2010, at 10:09, Zed wrote:

> I am using LinuxMint v8.0 and having difficulty in getting my Benq  
> S2W 4300U
> Scanner to work on my system.
>
> After installing u176v046.bin in .usr/share/sane/snapscan, and editing
> /etc/sane.d/snapscan.con to read:
>
> #------------------------------ General  
> -----------------------------------
>
> # Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if
> # firmware upload is needed by the scanner
> firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/u176v046.bin
>
> # If not automatically found you may manually specify a device name.
>
> # For USB scanners also specify bus=usb, e.g.
> /dev/usb/scanner0 bus=usb
>
> I get an error message: Failed to start scanner: Error during device  
> I/O

Please remove the line containing the USB device from your config file  
(/dev/usb/scanner0) - it's no longer useable for systems using libusb  
and the specified device does not exist on your system. After removing  
the line the scanner should be found automatically.

Regards,

Oliver