On Sunday 25 May 2003 01:42, Craig Toenes shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Weekends are probably not a good time to submit, but > here goes. About 2 years ago I had windows and I > purchased a Microtek Scanmaker 5700. It came with a > My question: How do I configure the scanner and > get Red Hat to detect it, and then how do I get x-sane > to detect it. X sane currently has no front > end for this scanner. I'm hoping for some sort of > luck. I've probably spent about 2 weeks trying various > ways and means, including a Belkin firewire > card in my laptop, to no avail. Some suggestions which might be of help: Use either the hardware browser, or run usbview to see if the scanner is found by Shrike. Have a look here to see if the scanner is supported (as a usb device): http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/index.php or here: http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html You could also try editing /etc/sane.d/microtek.conf by REMarking out any references to "scsi", and changing /dev/scanner to /dev/usb scanner, then running xsane and see if the scanner is recoginzed. Or load the scanner as a module (Check the shrike-list archives on previous discussions regarding this. Use google to search for: microtek linux usb scanner HTH & cheers, 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.
