I am having trouble accessing an epjitsu Fujitsu fi-60F at a remote site. The scanner was plugged in yesterday, the host PC has not been rebooted, and I would like to avoid doing that during business hours.
The host PC is Ubuntu 8.10 desktop, libsane-1.0.19-6ubuntu1: $ scanimage -V scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.19; backend version 1.0.19 My user is in the scanner group: $ grep scan /etc/group scanner:x:105:hplip,(...),myuser The default package epjitsu.conf is as follows: $ cat /etc/sane.d/epjitsu.conf # For scanners connected via USB on a known device (kernel driver): #usb /dev/usb/scanner0 # For scanners connected via USB using vendor and device ids (libusb): #usb VENDORID PRODUCTID # NOTE: if you have to add your device here- please send the id and model # to the author via email, so it can be included in next version. kitno455 at # gmail dot com - with epjitsu in the subject line # these devices require a firmware file in order to function # it can generally be found inside C:\windows\fjsti.cab or # C:\windows\fjmini\*.cab # open that file and look for a ~65K .NAL file with the scanner's name # and copy it someplace sane can reach it. then update the line below. # NOTE: the firmware line must occur BEFORE the usb line for your scanner # Fujitsu fi-60F firmware /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/60f_0A00.nal usb 0x04c5 0x10c7 # Fujitsu S300 firmware /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/300_0A00.nal usb 0x04c5 0x1156 The firware file is in place, but was not at the time the scanner was plugged in: $ ls -al /usr/share/sane/epjitsu total 80 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-04-28 13:09 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2008-11-06 12:25 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65793 2008-04-28 16:17 60f_0A00.nal sane-find-scanner finds the device as a USB id, but does not identify or associate it with the epjitsu backend: $ sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x04c5, product=0x10c7) at libusb:005:004 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as # necessary. However, scanimage does not find the device at all: $ scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). Are there any utilities to force detection and/or waking of this device, or is my best option to reboot? Thanks.
