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All I can get from dmesg is that its vernor/product codes aren't claimed
by any driver.

Based on the examples in linux-2.4.16-pre1/Doc*/usb/scanner.txt, I tried
to add those lines to modules.conf, but that gives an error on the
'modprobe scanner' line killing half the system which isn't good.
Interestingly, I can exec that exact same line from the a shell without
errors, and the scanner module is successfully loaded.  lsmod says its
there, with no linkages, but if I then try to rmmod it, its busy and
can't be removed.  Only a reboot removes scanner.o once loaded.

But there seems to be no way to give the 'options vendor=0x04b8
product=0x010f' to it from a shell.  No examples are shown in the man
pages...

I've been using a usb mouse for quite a while, great mouse, so that at
least is working.  uhci is compiled in, as is the mouse stuff, and
everything else in the usb menus of xconfig is set as a module.

Any hints on how to do this will be gleefully pursued.

Cheers, Gene
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Quote:> Based on *sane* saying it supports usb scanners now, I bought one, an
> Epson 1250U.

> All I can get from dmesg is that its vernor/product codes aren't claimed
> by any driver.

Dave

Look at the list of supported USB scanners, here:

    http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html

It says:

Quote:>              GT-7000,             Support for the Epson USB scanners is now  
>              Perfection           available from the Epson SANE backend      
>              610U, 636U,          homepage here. The transparency adaptors of
>              640U, 1200U/         the Photo models are also supported. Epson  
>              Photo, 1240U/        have been very helpful with the development
>              Photo, 1640SU,       of the backend, to the point of providing  
>Epson         1650/Photo           documentation that's not yet released.    

>                                   Please note the Epson Perfection 1250,
>                                   unlike other Epson scanners, does not use
>              Perfection 1250      the Epson Scanner Language and is not
>              /Photo               supported (it is reported to use a LM983x  
>                                   chipset, and may eventually be supported by
>                                   a backend for such scanners).        

Cheers, Gene
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- Daniel

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However, unlike ftape(at least now) support for a specific scanner which
uses generic languages is built into the scanner module in linux.  In my
case the Epson 1240U was not supported by the kernel I was running and I
had to add the vender/device info to the scanner.c file in the kernel
tree and recompile.  There's a way to do it with modules but I wasn't
able to get that to work.  Ultimately I found that the 2.4.5 version of
linux came out of the box with the necessary code for that scanner even
though it was in a different place.

Regardless, when you get it working you'll be absolutely delighted.