Afer more than a month of effort, I finally have a working HP4200C USB scanjet. In
order to get it working, I had to:
*Change a line in the scanner.o
-Rebuild the kernel with USB scanner support (can also be loaded as a module)
-Create a device for the USB scanner (mknod /dev/usb/scanner0 c 180 48)
-Create a symlink (ln -s /dev/usbscanner0 /dev/usbscanner)
-Change read and write permissions (chmod 666 /dev/usbscanner0)
-make sure the USB hardware is available for controller(lspci -v) and for scanner
(dmesg).
*Download the HP backend for SANE and the source code for SANE (Others can use Package
Manager)
*Apply HP backend to the SANE source. Do a ./configure, make, make install
-Edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
*Edit /etc/sane.d/hp.conf
-test (scanimage -T, scanimage --help)
-launch scanner module (xscanimage)
-load xscanimage as a plugin in GIMP (I still have to do this, but compared to
everything else, this is not hard)
Lines with an asterisk(*) are unique to HP scanners.
None of this is very intuitive (At least for me). Anyway, I'll mention it in case
someone else ventures off on a similar attempt. With all of the new USB devices, it
would be nice if the next STORM will have deb files for some of the "non-standard"
types of scanners,
as well as a USB module within SAS to quickly install USB modules for different
devices. I also think it would be nice to have an updated emergency boot-disk maker
within SAS for those of us who have modified our kernels from the version that shipped.
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