Has anyone ever made scanning work?

[Bill Davidsen]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> I'm sure there's
>> some undocumented diddle which tells xsane and scanimage not to try to
>> load any firmware, but there's a limit to how much time it's worth to
>> find it.
> 
> Maybe you should try reinstalling the OS, and just plugging in the
> scanner without doing any manual configuration.
> 
That gets me where I started. Snapscan insists on trying to load the 
firmware, and even when I give it the right firmware to load it blows up 
with an i/o error. Hardware works on Windows, fails on several Linux 
machines, so hardware issues are really remote.

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