> John Richard Smith wrote:
> > amending the line that sets the scanner port,
> > 
> > like this,
> > #usb /dev/usbscanner0
> > usb /dev/usb/scanner0
> > 
thanks,
unfortunately doesn't work on mine.

On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 06:05, Graham Watkins wrote:
> >
> Hi Y'all,
> 
> I had the same problem when I first installed 9.2 a week ago.  Also my 
> floppy, zip and cd drives all vanished.
> 
> Yesterday, I booted up with the installation CD and selected the upgrade 
>   option.  All missing hardware including the scanner was detected and 
> this time, stayed detected.  My scanner is still there this morning. 
> (First time my scanner has ever worked with Linux.)
> 
> The hackers amongst you may consider this a bit of a cop-out but it 
> worked for me.
> 
> Might be as well to install the updates first as I think it has been 
> mentioned that there is some kind of bug in harddrake as supplied on the 
> disk.
> 
> Cheers,

I've done all the updates to no avail. Will try the installation CD
route when I get back from holiday.

David


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