thnx Oliver, but too bad, same response: [kas@fedje ~]$ scanimage -L --verbose No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). [kas@fedje ~]$ su - Password: [root@fedje ~]# scanimage -L --verbose No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). [root@fedje ~]# I'll try SANE Thanks again for the prompt response 2011/7/30 Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Am Freitag, 29. Juli 2011, 23:48:43 schrieb Kasper Haitsma: >> T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 >> D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 >> P: Vendor=03f0 ProdID=1405 Rev= 1.00 >> S: Manufacturer=Hewlett-Packard >> S: Product=HP Scanjet Scanner >> S: SerialNumber=CN399S289R >> C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 48mA >> I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none) >> E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms >> E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms >> E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 1 Ivl=8ms >> ... >> >> the "I:" line in /proc/bus/usb/devices for the device, reports Driver=(none) >> >> I expect the problem lies there. > > No. Scanners (with very few exceptions) use no kernel space driver. SANE > talks to them via usbfs. As lsusb reports the scanner, this likely to be a sane issue. > Try > > scanimage -L --verbose > > Regards > Oliver > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html