[SLUG] fedora 6 and epson scanner

2007-04-11 Thread Craig Warner
I'm trying to setup a epson scanner (Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04b8:011f
Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1670) on Fedora Core 6 and allow network
scanning.

The problem I'm having is understanding the linux.readme
http://www.sane-project.org/README.linux, in particular the bit about
udev rules.

Can someone point out what I need to do?

Craig




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Re: [SLUG] fedora 6 and epson scanner

2007-04-11 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:31:41 +1000, Craig Warner wrote:

Hi Craig,

 Can someone point out what I need to do?

I don't know how FC6 differs from Ubuntu, but in the hope that it's
similar enough that it'll just work, here's all I had to do to get an
Epson scanner working on Ubuntu (dapper):

install libsane, sane and sane-utils
edit /etc/sane.d/saned.conf to allow scanning from my subnet
edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf to uncomment the net and epson
backends and comment out all the others
create /etc/xinetd.d/saned to run /usr/sbin/saned on port 6566
(sane-port)
restart xinetd

I then had trouble with remote hosts being able to automatically find
the scanner, so after a few hours of trying everything I could think of,
I eventually got it to work properly only in debug mode and only if not
run via xinetd.  So, I disabled service via xinetd and wrote a script
which continually ran saned in debug mode:

#/bin/sh
cd /tmp
while /bin/true
do
/usr/sbin/saned -d0 /dev/null 21
done

and I start that from /etc/rc.local with:

su saned /usr/local/sbin/saned 


Cheers,

John
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