USB scanner Install

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USB scanner Install

Linux Can't find it

David

4:22 am on Apr 9, 2002 (gmt 0)

I have been trying to install a Epson 1650 scanner. I have installed the sane package and this scanner is supported. My problem is that the scanner is not being loaded so sane can't find it. I have an entry for it in /proc/bus/usb but it shows driver(none). I have a usb zipdrive and mouse that work fine.

This is the first piece of hardware that I have installed that kudzu has not responded to on a reboot. My guess is that it does not know what to do with it.

Any Ideas?

Josk

8:29 am on Apr 9, 2002 (gmt 0)

Have you located a linux driver for it? You may need to load a module so that its recognised.

David

3:29 pm on Apr 9, 2002 (gmt 0)

Thanks Josk,

I should have the right driver. According to sane there are three default system scanner drivers and I have all three.

If I plug in my hp usb scanner kudzu picks it up and installs the Driver (problem is my hp is not supported by sane). So I have this shiney new Epson (that sane supports) and I can't get it to be picked up.

I have manualy used insmode to load each driver then unplug and run Kudzu plug it back in and rerun. Still no luck.

I know I am going to find out this is a simple fix just don't know what it is. Even the epson website has a frontend for this scanner on Linux.

David

12:45 am on Apr 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

I finally got part one. to get the driver to load I had to include the vendor and product. Scanner works great !

insmod scanner.o vendor=0x04b8 product=0x0110

Now I just have to figure out how to load it at bootup so you don't have to manually insmod.

Josk

9:00 am on Apr 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

have you read the modules howto?

It should be on [tldp.org...] or you may have it in your how to's. AIFAICR you need to play with /etc/conf/modules.conf, or whatever your system's equivilent is.

insmod inserts a module (and rmmod removes it). If you can't get get the module loader (above) to work, try adding the line you came up with to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. (This file is looked at last during the boot-up process (1) and is for local things to be loaded.)

(1) Or at anytime the run level is changed, depending on the run level