[SLUG] Epson Scanner and Fedora Core 6

[Pete Redwood]

The following are the instructions for tweaking on Ubuntu:

Edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, replacing epson with epkowa (yes, I’m serious).

add the following to /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rules:

# Epson Perfection v350
SYSFS{idVendor}=="04b8", SYSFS{idProduct}=="012f", MODE="664", GROUP="scanner"

And I think that’s about it. Make sure you’re in the scanner group, and run:

scanimage -L

Might be worth checking for similar files on Fedora.


Regards
Pete Redwood
predwood at phonecoop.coop
On Monday 31 December 2007 14:28:40 John Allsopp wrote:
> Hi people
>
> Hope Christmas was good and you have fun tonight.
>
> I've a question. I've tried to solve this myself but I'm getting nowhere.
>
> I bought an Epson Perfection V350 Photo scanner a while back in the
> belief that it was Linux friendly. It works on Windows, but I haven't
> got it to work in my Fedora Core 6 yet.
>
> The manual says it should just plug and play. Epson provides software to
> run on Linux, iScan. I've installed that and it just says "Could not
> send command to scanner. Check the scanner's status".
>
> Having done all that, Epson's help by email says "Linux. You're kidding,
> right? Noooo, we don't provide drivers for that."
>
> Plug and play works, because it wakes up when I plug my camera into the
> USB port.
>
> So I'm feeling like this is a 'plug and play can't recognise my scanner'
> issue.
>
> Does anyone know where I should be looking and what I need to know more
> about to get closer to fixing this?
>
> My SANE is 1.0.18. My kernel 2.6.20.
>
> The manual says "with hoplug support in version 1.14.0" (of what, it
> doesn't say), "libusb has become the default. If hotplug is installed on
> your system, then you should not have to configure anything. Just
> connect your scanner, turn it on, and start iscan". Sure thing.
>
> There are no scanner modules loaded into my kernel, getting in the way
> of anything.
>
> And it talks about using the kernel's scanner module as "the old
> fashioned way", so I'd rather not head backwards.
>
> I did download a live CD of Fedora 8 but it's skimpy enough not to know
> if that would solve things. It didn't have any scanner support.
>
> All help appreciated.
>
> Cheers
> J


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