[Nottingham] SANE:HP scanjet 5370c

[David Wolfson]

I gather that printing in linux used to be considered 'tricky'. It now seems that this can be said of scanning instead! I'm trying to get my scanner (HP scanjet 5370c) working under mandrake10.1, and am having trouble. I've been googling and reading manpages on and off for the last week, and after a 2 hour stint this eveing could do with some advise please.

The scanner is connected on usb, and '$sane-find-scanner' seems to find it:
found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0701) at libusb:002:004

from reading the sane pages I gather that this is really an avison scanner, so I tried adding the following (in turn) to /etc/sane.d/avision.conf:
usb libusb:002:004
usb 0x03f0 0x0701
(I can post the whole of the .conf file if anyone thinks it'll help)

as you'll have gathered by now, it doesn't work...yet. If I run x-sane, it occasionally starts up and goes on to give something like:, but normally gives something like:
unable ot start device: I/O error
but normally gives something like:
no devices available.

So much for the GUIs. Unfortunately, command line tools don't help either. '$scanimage' gives:
scanimage: no SANE devices found
and '$scanimage -d avision:/proc/bus/usb/002/004':
used to give an error relating to an invalid parameter, but now reports a segmentaion fault ;-s

I think I might have a couple of leads from googling, the first (rather cynical) being:
http://www.linux-sxs.org/hardware/usbsane.html
which made me wonder if I need to link the /proc/bus/..../004 to something in /dev/. There's no mention of libusb on this page though, so could it be outdated?

the second (and rather more positive) page is:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=281312 
The module mentioned (hpusbscsi) is running, but '$modprobe -r hpusbscsi' reports depenceis:
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/image/hpusbscsi.ko.gz

and anyway, I'm to too sure on teh ettiqutte of removing modules...

so does anyone have any good ideas? Might this be one to bring to a 'fix-me-up' evening? can anyone give me one less reason to boot to windows?

Thanks,

Dave




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