plustek@linuxhacker.org

Hi,

On Mittwoch, 12. März 2003 00:09, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote:
> Hello
>
> I managed to get my UMAX 3400 working in an old Mandrake 8.1 but then I
> decided to upgrade to Redhat 8.0 (and of course umax 3400 is now as good as
> nothing).  I have tried all I could remember but nothing seems to work.

did you ;-)

>
> a) sane-find-scanner
>
>   # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure
> that
>   # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x1606 [UMAX], product=0x0060 [USB SCANNER]) at
> libusb:001:003
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x8086, product=0x0431) at libusb:001:004
>   # A USB device was detected. This program can't be sure if it's really
>   # a scanner. If it is your scanner, it may or may not be supported by
>   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

here we are again!
You scanner does not use - or at least your system uses libusb to connect to
your scanner. An so you should change plustek.conf to reflect this.

>
>   # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
> can't be
>   # detected by this program.
>
> It seems ok, doesn't it?
>
> b) plustek.conf
>
> # The USB section:
> # each device needs at least two lines:
> # - [usb] vendor-ID and product-ID
> # - device devicename
> # i.e. for Plustek (0x07B3) UT12/16/24 (0x0017)
> [usb]  0x1606 0x0060
> device /dev/usb/scanner0

--> device auto (for SANE-1.0.10 and higher)
--> device libusb:001:003 (for SANE < 1.0.10)

> parport line is commented.
>
> c) I am running sane-1.0.9 with no modfications, patches or anything.

Please update to 1.0.11 - here are the latest patches concerning the 3400

>
> d) scanimage -L
>

Gerhard