USB SCanners

[Gerry Tool]

Ted Gervais wrote:
> Thanks for the tip and suggestion(s)..
> 
> Here is what I see when I run 'same-find-scanner'  as root:
> 
> "found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x2005) at libusb:001:002
>   # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
> supported by
>   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage."
> 
> However, I don't get much when I run 'scanimage -L'.
> 
> But I do have an indication that a scanner exists at -
> /proc/bus/usb/001/002"
> 
> 
> Don't know if any of this is good or bad news..
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 18:08, Peter L. Hurd wrote:
> 
>>Ted Gervais asked:
>>
>>>I was wondering the best way to find where my scanner is hiding
>>>after I bring up FC2?
>>
>>sane-find-scanner is the command you are looking for
>>
>>
>>>What for example is a scan command to find lets say, all USB
>>>devices? In particular of course, for the HP Scanjet 3570C.
>>
>>it'll (hopefully produce a line like this:
>>
>>found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9, product=0x220e, chip=LM983x?) at
>>libusb:001:00 2
>>
>>if run as a regular user, or like this
>>
>>found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x220e [CanoScan],
>>chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:001:002
>>
>>if run as root.
>>
>>these both indicate a scanner at /proc/bus/usb/001/002
>>
>>
>>>Possibly USB  does not work well with FC2?
>>
>>I'm scanning ok as root, but having a bit of trouble letting normal
>>users scan...  See also the manpage for sane-usb.
>>
>>-P.
>>
>>-- 
>>Peter L. Hurd                                  Department of Psychology
>>Assistant Professor                               University of Alberta
>>Ph 780.492-3578, Fax 780.492-1768                     Edmonton, Alberta
>>http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~phurd                      T6G 2E9 Canada

As root, execute

chmod a+w /proc/bus/usb/001/002

Unfortunately, until a bug is fixed, you will have to do this each time 
you reboot.  Note the digits are specific to your system as determined 
by executing scanimage as you did.

Hope this gets it working.

Gerry Tool