Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:03:23AM -0800, Lloyd Sumpter wrote: > > Strange date. > Sorry, had just rebooted (from the problems between harddrake and sane-find-scanner) and hadn't run rdate yet.
<snip> > >>BTW: The reason I have to upgrade is that apparently the sane-backends >>included with Mandrake 10.0 do NOT support libusb (but since the kernel >>is 2.6.x, there's no scanner.o to use instead...) > > > sane-backends supports libusb since quite some time. And it was needed > before kernel 2.6 at least for some scanners. So I'd be surprised if > the Mandrake version had no libusb support. > > You can check by running "sane-find-scanner -v -v". It should print > messages about using libusb. > Thanks for your help! But on Sept 29, you wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:22:01PM -0700, Lloyd Sumpter wrote: > > > [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of sanei_usb to 255. > > [sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: couldn't open /dev/usb/scanner0: No such > device > > [sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: found 0 devices > > > Oh. That means that SANE isn't built with libusb support. It only > searches for /dev/usb/ but not for libusb devices. > > As your sane-find-scanner program finds libusb devices, maybe you have > an old installation of the SANE backends without libusb support that's > used by scanimage? Note that sane-find-scanner DOES find the scanner (using libusb), but scanimage does not. PLEASE, any help would be appreciated - I've been working on this for weeks! Lloyd Sumpter