[sane-devel] fujitus scansnap ix500 (not found by sane-find-scanner)

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Mon May 19 17:17:09 UTC 2014


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allan

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:23 AM, andreo73 <andrea.baragi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get a ix500 work on my pc with ubuntu 14.04 freshly installed;
> the scanner is attached through usb cable to a usb2 port (my pc has only
> usb2 ports)
>
> when the usb cable is first connected (or the scanner is switched on), dmesg
> reports
>
>  usb 2-6: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
>  usb 2-6: New USB device found, idVendor=04c5, idProduct=132b
>  usb 2-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
>  usb 2-6: Product: ScanSnap iX500
>  usb 2-6: Manufacturer: Fujitsu
>
> the backend is installed from the debian libsane package (version number
> 1.0.23-3ubuntu3)
>
> I've modified the fujitsu.conf file appending at the end
>
> #ScanSnap iX500
> usb 0x04c5 0x132b
>
> I've also modified /etc/default/saned to have RUN=yes  and restarted with
> sudo service saned restart
> (the service starts with no errors)
>
> sane-find-scanner *does not* find anything, even with sudo
>
> sudo scanimage -L remains silend for almost a minute, during which the
> scanner's blue light change status, becomes half/orange and flashing ; after
> a minute or more, the response is "No scanners were identified. ...."
>
> any suggestion? where to start?
>
> thanks!!
>
>
>
>
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