SANE - scanner problems

Jason Shein jshein-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Fri Oct 3 19:19:59 UTC 2003


I forgot how I initially got it to work in the first place.

http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/#work


-snip-
Most USB models need a firmware upload in order to work (see table
above). The bin file can be found in the windows drivers coming with
your scanner. For scanners from Acer / Benq the last three digits of the
firmware file depend on the version of your driver CD. The files listed
in the table are known to work, other versions will probably work as
well.

If you have a scanner from Acer or Benq and are uncertain which firmware
file to use, run "acerfirm  -q".

You have to specify the firmware file in snapscan.conf, which can
usually be found in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/ if you compiled SANE yourself
or /etc/sane.d if you installed SANE from your distribution. The line
should start with 'firmware' and contain the fully qualified path to
your firmware file, e.g. 
        firmware /path/to/my/firmware.bin
You can also upload the firmware to your scanner manually. You need to
launch one of agfafirm or acerfirm perl scripts: 
        acerfirm /dev/usbscanner u34v101.bin
        
Note: acerfirm and agfafirm will only work if you use the scanner module
to access your USB scanner. It does not work with libusb.
-snip-

Thanx for the input everyone. I got it working now.

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:50, JoeHill wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 11:43:31 -0400
> Jason Shein <jshein-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> uttered:
> 
> > 
> > Probably a glitch from the yast2 tool. I am trying to locate where the
> > config files are. Any ideas?
> 
> what does "sane-find-scanner" report? It may show the same as Kooka, but
> it may also give you more output besides.
> 
> also, as has been suggested, try lsmod to make sure the driver modules
> have been loaded, and:
> 
> ls -l /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/usb
> 
> to see a listing of where the drivers are and the perms and such.
> 
> Been through this before myself, and for once I actually wrote
> everything down I was advised to try ;-)
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