On April 23, 2003 09:30 am, Charles Griffin wrote: > I am thinking of adding a cheap scanner (<$100) to my I'm using an Epson 610u (USB) scanner hooked up to a 4-port hub. It cost me a bit over CAD $100 a couple of years ago, but naturally hardward prices have dropped since then. Mandrake configures it automatically, but in Red Hat, you'd need to *manually edit* /etc/sane.d/epson.conf thus: 1) REMove the "scsi" line, and 2) *enable* the "/dev/usb/scanner0" FWIW, I had entered this as a RFE in RH Bugzilla, but I guess it was not a priority. > system. Any recommendations? Any particular brands > work well in Linux? Any particular brands to stay > away from? Any resources I should check into? For a better overview of USB devices in general, I highly recommending a visit to: The Linux USB Devices site http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/ cheers & HTH, Elton ;-) -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_4504.html "You only live once, so let's make life EASIER for each other." LINUX Registered User #193975. AMD-K7 ATHLON CPU power on board.
