On Saturday 24 October 2009, Jim wrote: >On 10/24/2009 12:11 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 11:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Saturday 24 October 2009, Louis Lagendijk wrote: >>>>> Problem 2 is that the scanner doesn't even check in as shown above. >>>>> OTOH, I also have an Epson 1250u that works flawlessly, but it would >>>>> be nice to get rid of one rather high occupancy item here in the >>>>> coyote.den. >>>> >>>> and this is the strange part: why does it not show the scanner? What >>>> does lsusb return? Does the scanner work under Windows? Not that it >>>> matters much as the scanner seems not supported by Sane right now. But >>>> maybe this is just a matter of adding the usb id.... >>>> >>>> Louis >>> >>> The scanner does show in an lsusb -v, but not without the -v, here is a >>> snippet: >>> ========================== >>> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b8:0856 Seiko Epson Corp. >>> Device Descriptor: >>> bLength 18 >>> bDescriptorType 1 >>> bcdUSB 2.00 >>> bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) >>> bDeviceSubClass 0 >>> bDeviceProtocol 0 >>> bMaxPacketSize0 64 >>> idVendor 0x04b8 Seiko Epson Corp. >>> idProduct 0x0856 >>> bcdDevice 1.00 >>> iManufacturer 1 EPSON >>> iProduct 2 USB2.0 MFP(Hi-Speed) >>> iSerial 3 4C454C593037313524 [...] >>> iInterface 5 EPSON Scanner [...] >>> ============================ >>> >>> Thanks. >> >> I suggest to keep an eye on http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/ >> these guys make some linux drivers for Epson devices (they are in some >> way related to Epson). I see that they already have Imagescan for the >> NX415 (actually Image Scan! for Linux& Photo Image Print System Lite) >> Click on the download for "all in ones", select the NX415 and of you >> go..... >> >> >> Good luck| >> >> Louis > >These drivers from > >http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/ > >are not of the greatest, so keep check for Gutenprint-cups drivers they do > very good drivers. > >Do a yum install gutenprint-cups and see if your printer is in the Printer > selection chart > Unforch: Package gutenprint-cups-5.2.4-4.fc10.i386 already installed and latest version Because if I had my druthers, only gutenprint would ever be installed, all the others are just so much noise in the cups driver list. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. -- Samuel Goldwyn -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
