[PLUG] usb scanners and linux

Andrew Puch aapuch at attbi.com
Mon May 27 18:40:32 UTC 2002


On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 09:12, Dave Phillips wrote:
> I have a usb scanner I have been trying to get to work.  It is a 
> visioneer 6100.  I have read the docs, and visited linux-usb etc and I 
> am sooo close. I am running RH7.3
> 
> 1. I have a new scanner.c & scanner.h file I downloaded that supports my 
> scanner(where do these go?)
> 
> 2. I have inserted the scanner module with my vendor and product ID
> 
> 3. usbview shows the scanner attached, kernelcfg show the module is loaded
> 
> Xsane still doesn't recognize it, any help on my next move would be 
> greatly appriciated

I went there the same thing with my microtek usb C6 

make sure that you have mounted the usbfile system

mount -t usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb 

then you should be going with gas. 







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