xsane sm3600

Dennis Kaptain dkaptain at comcast.net
Fri Dec 5 04:19:50 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 21:56, Samuel AU wrote:
> Dennis Kaptain ??:
> 
> >can anyone help me get my Microtek ScanMaker 3600 working with xsane?
> >
> >I did a google and found 
> >http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=37679
> >I followed the directions by adding 
> >sm3600  0x0003  0x05da  0x40ca  0x0000  0x0000  0x00  0x00 0x00  0x00 0x00    
> >0x00    0x00000000
> >to /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap
> >
> >I also added the suggested script /etc/hotplug/usb/sm3600
> >
> >while the scanner is on I see in /proc/bus/usb/devices
> >T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 14 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
> >D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
> >P:  Vendor=05da ProdID=40ca Rev= 0.00
> >C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=60 MxPwr=100mA
> >I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
> >E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
> >
> >
> >when the scanner starts I see the following added to /var/log/messages
> >Dec  4 21:30:42 GodsMan kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned 
> >address 14
> >Dec  4 21:30:42 GodsMan kernel: usb.c: USB device 14 (vend/prod 0x5da/0x40ca) 
> >is not claimed by any active driver.
> >Dec  4 21:30:45 GodsMan sm3600[10661]: setting permissions of 
> >/proc/bus/usb/001/014
> >Dec  4 21:30:46 GodsMan sm3600[10695]: setting permissions of 
> >/proc/bus/usb/001/014
> >Dec  4 21:30:48 GodsMan devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted
> >
> >when I execute xsane I get an error box that says:
> >Failed to open device 'sm3600:1/1':
> >Error during device I/O
> >
> >I also see appended to /var/log/messages:
> >Dec  4 21:30:54 GodsMan modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81
> >
> >
> >Any ideas??
> >Thanks so much.
> >
> >
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> >  
> >
> You can access the scanner by root.
> Or, chmod 666 to the /proc/bus/usb/*, so that you can access it by 
> normal users.
> 
> Cheers, :)
> Samuel

Samuel,
That was it. A permissions problem with /proc/bus/usb/*
I got it to work using chmod -R 777 /proc/bus/usb/*
Now I have to play with it and make the permissions
"sane" ha ha ha.
Thanks.
Dennis Kaptain





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