Hello! I'm trying to finish a small project which I started on a now-defunct XP PC using this very old scanner. Now it's become a bit of a challenge in itself ! The MediaImpression software appears to run OK under Wine 5.0-3ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (but strangely (?) wine will not run as root); There are some messages when it starts, but none when I try to access the scanner (except the gui's "scanner not connected"). Wine help is quite specific that scanners use TWAIN/SANE and so I've been trying to get sane-find-scanner to work, but without success, even though lsusb identifies the hardware. All my other usb stuff works quite happily.
*sudo sane-find-scanner* ... # No USB scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel driver for your USB host controller and have setup # the USB system correctly. See man sane-usb for details. ... *sudo lsusb* ... Bus 001 Device 004: ID 115b:3100 Salix Technology Co., Ltd. USB Scanner. ... --------------------------------------- I've read man sane-usb. Not sure about running *rmmod scanner* -- can someone assure me I won't damage access to my main scanner (it's networked, just to a router port)? Or advise how to swap from one to the other, and back. I believe I mounted usbfs (how to check? [sudo] *mount -t usbfs* returns nothing). Perhaps it doesn't mount if I don't *rmmod scanner* ? ------------------ Other stuff I've tried (and remembered!): ----------------- run *chown* on /dev/bus/usb/001/004 (*sudo chown saned:scanner 004*) and added myself to the scanner group; but *ls -l* now gives (and the +, 'alternative access', means what ? The result of my chown is hidden, or has been ignored? ): crw-rw-r--+ 1 root root 189, 3 Sep 15 16:48 004 ----------------- installed sane-airscan ----------------- A spot of editing: *sudo nano /etc/sane.d/dll.conf* to include a29jn, and created /etc/sane.d/a29jn.conf along the lines of other files in that directory (what is the 0x prefix for?): usb usb 0x115b 0x3100 ------------------ Sorry, this has turned into one of those long emails which I can't imagine anyone reading, but hopefully someone more knowledgable than me will tell me where I've gone wrong ... A.
