I don't know if this will help, since I don't have a USB scanner, but I do have a USB smart card reader. It shows up under /proc/bus/usb and also as a SCSI device as sda. Have you tried loading Harddrake and seeing if it sees your scanner?
Joe On Saturday 12 January 2002 08:47 pm, you wrote: > OK, I thought this was going to be an easy one. Apparently I was wrong. I > have an Epson Perfection 1650 USB scanner chosen partially because it is > supported by SANE under Linux. I am running Mandrake 8.1 which has USB > support. But the scanner does not show up in /dev/usb, though usbview > shows it as present. And, of course, it doesn't show up --- nothing does > --- in sane-find-scanner run as root. > > I downloaded and installed the latest versions of sane (1.0.6) and xsane > (0.83) to no avail. > > Help! I have been through the newbie and expert email archives and found > nothing that seems relevant. Where do I look next? Anybody got a spare clue > for me? > > andy > > > > Andy Davidson --- Pheon Research > If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
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