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matejo

Member

From: Kraków/Poland

Registered: 2009-03-03

Posts: 3

Plustek OpticSlim 2600 scanner not detected by scanimage

Was anyone able to make this scanner work?

I have installed sane-gt68xx-backend (which technically doesn't say it supports the 2600 model - only 2400) and I get the following output from sane-find scanner:

found USB scanner (vendor=0x07b3, product=0x0467, chip=GT-6816?) at libusb:006:002

Then, however, when I run scanimage -L there are no devices detected (tried both as user and as root).

If any one of you managed to make this thing running in Arch, then please, share your expertise. :-)

pigiron

Member

From: USA

Registered: 2009-07-14

Posts: 150

Re: Plustek OpticSlim 2600 scanner not detected by scanimage

I ran into something like this getting my neighbor's scanner working on his Linux box. But that was a couple of years ago... and my memory sucks... so don't rely on any of the following...

Since the sane-gt68xx-backend package hasn't been updated since 2007, his scanner also wouldn't work right away.

In my case I had to use the Vendor-ID and Product-ID to get the real manufacturer and model of the scanner. Even though the scanner had it's own name/model, I found out the "guts" of the scanner was actually made by Plustek (I think). But that's not the problem in your case.

But... I did need to add the Vendor ID (yours is 0x07b3) and Product ID (yours is 0x0467) to one of the Sane configuration files (was it /etc/sand.d/gt68xx.conf ???).

Then, one of the logs (syslog???) started complaining about not being able to find the scanner firmware. This is where it got fun

In an attempt to refresh my very poor memory, I just tried the following steps using your scanner info...

I went to http://plustek.com/ and downloaded the Windows device driver for the Plustek OpticSlim 2600, and then unzipped it in an empty "junk" directory.

Then I installed the "unshield" package on my Arch Linux box. Next, I used unshield's "-d" parameters and "x" command to extract all the files inside the data1.cab file to another empty directory. I think you'll find scanner's firmware file at /DRV_71QU/cis3R5B1.fw in that directory you extracted the files to.

In my case I then had to copy that firmware file to the /usr/share/sane/gt68xx directory.

Then the scanner actually worked rather well.

Good luck!