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Lars Stokholm

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 223

sane finds scannet, but can't scan

I've installed sane and added myself to the scanner group.

[lars@laptop ~]$ sane-find-scanner

  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
  # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
  # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x08ff, product=0x2810) at libusb:004:002
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.

  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
  # can't be detected by this program.

  # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you
  # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
  # necessary.
[lars@laptop ~]$ scanimage -L

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

What have I done wrong?

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: sane finds scannet, but can't scan

Got my scanner working several days ago: First whether check /etc/udev/rules.d/sane.rules  vendor 08ff and product 2810. If not you should add it. Also in order for your scanner to work it must've come with several files. One is .conf file which goes in /etc/sane.d/ Add the name of that file (for example if the name was smft.conf add smft to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf) to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf.
Then go to /usr/lib/sane. Put there the driver which is for your scanner (In my case on my install cd there was a libsane-smfp.so.1.0.1) and make two symbolic links to it: In my case

su
cd /usr/lib/sane
ln -s libsane-smfp.so.1.0.1 libsane-smfp.so
ln -s libsane-smfp.so.1.0.1 libsane-smfp.so.1

After that your scanner should work. However if you don't have those files (the .conf and .so) And you can't find them over google (for your scanner) It is likely that your scanner is not supported by sane.

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