Having read much on setting up a scanner, its embarrassing that I cannot get it to work.
I have an Epson 3490 Photo printer attached via the usb bus to debian sarge. I'm running kernel 2.6.8-2-686, which means I'm using libusb rather than the kernel's scanner module ($ lsmod | grep scanner returns nothing). This scanner is seen on the usb bus: $ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices | more T: Bus=02 Lev=02 Prnt=02 Port=02 Cnt=01 Dev#= 23 Spd=480 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=04b8 ProdID=0122 Rev= 1.10 S: Manufacturer=EPSON S: Product=EPSON Scanner C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=100mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none) E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=4096ms The scanner is known to my backend (sane database of scanners): $ sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner ... found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0122 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:002:023 In /etc/sane.d/epson.conf there is a "usb" line (but also a "scsi EPSON" line, which I assume is ignored.) I have a scanner group and a saned group, and both user and root belong to them, and I subsequently relogged in (there may be a bit of overkill here). scanner:x:110:root,brownh,admin saned:x:111:root,brownh,admin I gave permission to the scanner group to use the scanner interface: $ ls -l /dev/usb/ | grep scanner0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root scanner 180, 48 2005-09-08 12:16 scanner0 And finally, for both root and user: # scanimage -L No scanners were identified. ... I don't find any .usermap for scanning in /etc/hotplug/usb/, nor is there any usb.usermap file. Not sure there should be. The closest is /etc/hotplug/usb.handmap, but it has no entry for a scanner. I assume that hotplug is irrelevant here. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex SS-482 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]