[Gloucs] *** scanner

[jim_ashford at lineone.net]

>-- Original Message --
>Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 18:21:12 +0000
>From: Paul Broadhead <lug at twinmoons.clara.co.uk>
>To: Gloucestershire LUG <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Gloucs] *** scanner
>Reply-To: Gloucestershire LUG <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>
>
>jim_ashford at lineone.net wrote:

> Do you ever get fed up with Linux, and things just not working!

That's all part of the fun!  Normally if it can work, you can get it to
work.  My limited experience with that other product laughingly called
an O
> is very different. If things don't work,  its very difficult to
fix. Things just break for no logical reason; may be because you
happened to install a totalled unrelated program, or other components in
the 'wrong' order.

> I was given a scanner
>or Christmas, and despite it being on the SuSE 9
> list of supported hardware it just will not work, needs a firmware update
> it says, so I went to the sane web site downloaded the correct firmware
> update, installed it where it said in the man pa
>es, and the ***** thing
> still wont work.
> O well, I will have to continue using it with Windows 2000.

Don't give up too easily, there's alway help at hand in the great Linux
community.  The first time I installed a scanner I was stumped until
>
someone told me that I had to enable the scanner device.  I had to
locate the config file for my scanner in /etc/sane.d and uncomment out
the line "usb /dev/usb/scanner0".  In my case this file was
/etc/sane.d/epson.conf.  My apologies if you have
>lready tried this.

In any case, if you post the details of the model etc, someone may be
able to help.

Regards,
Paul


Hi

Sorry for the wing.
I have not tried the things you sugest,I was not aware that you had to,this
one of the reasons that I am looking forward to the Linux lessons.
Thank you for the replie
Jim

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