plustek: Thread: Plustek U12

Hello Everyone on this List.

I need to install my Plustek U12 USB Scanner on an
Debain Woody installation. I tried many things and
read much Howto's and everything.

But until now I was not able to install the Scanner.
I downloaded SANE and the Plustekdriver for fixing
it together, but I found out, that the latest Ver-
sion supports Plustek USB Scanners from the Hook,
so I tried to use the SANE 1.0.9 Deb Packet for in-
stallation.

I'm unsure, if I used the right Kernel Modules for the
Installation, but my USB Controller is installed the
right way and the Module for Scannersupport is
installed either. But sane-find-scanner was not able
to find anything connected to my Computer.

For a while I had the same Problem with Windows 2k,
so I searched for a driver for the scanner. There was
something about the Serial Number of the Scanner, 
but I found out, that my scanner was one of the Scan-
ners that where supported by the driver i received.

So I believe it should work under Linux. I wrote here
in the list some days before, but I could not manage to
find out which P/NR or some like this it has, 'cause I
don't know how to find out.

It would be very nice, if somebody could tell me, how
you installed this type of scanner before, or how I should
do it. If you need some mor information, I will offer it to
you, but you have to tell me, how I can find the Information.

I'm switched to Linux only about one month ago, so I'm not
that firm on how to work on the /proc system, ot how to do
some things on the shell, but my knowledge is not too bad,
for doing some steps explained to me.

It would be really nice, to have this scanner working. It's
one of the steps I need to get away from Windoze to the
fullest, so please help me!!!

I hope, somebody is willing to help me, if there is a possibility.

Thanks regards to all Members of the List.

Have a nice time to spend.

Sascha Braun

Hi Sascha,

On Thursday, 5. December 2002 20:08, Sascha Braun wrote:
> Hello Everyone on this List.
>
> I need to install my Plustek U12 USB Scanner on an
> Debain Woody installation. I tried many things and
> read much Howto's and everything.

Good, so you should now be able to load all
the stuff needed for your USB subsystem:

check (as root) with lsmod for something like that:
lsmod
usb-uhci               20960   0  (unused)
usbcore                47808   1  [usb-uhci]

it might be that you have ohci loaded but that doesn't matter.
If you do not have this stuff loaded, check your debian manuals
and howtos until the usb stuff is loaded.

>
> But until now I was not able to install the Scanner.
> I downloaded SANE and the Plustekdriver for fixing
> it together, but I found out, that the latest Ver-
> sion supports Plustek USB Scanners from the Hook,
> so I tried to use the SANE 1.0.9 Deb Packet for in-
> stallation.
>
> I'm unsure, if I used the right Kernel Modules for the
> Installation, but my USB Controller is installed the
> right way and the Module for Scannersupport is
> installed either. But sane-find-scanner was not able
> to find anything connected to my Computer.

Great - at least scanner.o must have been loaded too.

>
> For a while I had the same Problem with Windows 2k,
> so I searched for a driver for the scanner. There was
> something about the Serial Number of the Scanner,
> but I found out, that my scanner was one of the Scan-
> ners that where supported by the driver i received.
>
> So I believe it should work under Linux. I wrote here
> in the list some days before, but I could not manage to
> find out which P/NR or some like this it has, 'cause I
> don't know how to find out.
>
> It would be very nice, if somebody could tell me, how
> you installed this type of scanner before, or how I should
> do it. If you need some mor information, I will offer it to
> you, but you have to tell me, how I can find the Information.

That's the interesting thing: If scanner module is loaded, then
you should be able to tell us the vendor and product ID:
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices 
check for the vendor ID 0x07b3 (it is the Plustek ID)

I need this product ID to tell you whether the scanner is supported
or not...

>
> I'm switched to Linux only about one month ago, so I'm not
> that firm on how to work on the /proc system, ot how to do
> some things on the shell, but my knowledge is not too bad,
> for doing some steps explained to me.
>
> It would be really nice, to have this scanner working. It's
> one of the steps I need to get away from Windoze to the
> fullest, so please help me!!!

That's what everybody on this lists wants ;-)

>
> I hope, somebody is willing to help me, if there is a possibility.

Willing yes, but only if there's no way for you to continue.
There's a lot of documentation around and the info you supply
is not clear quite now, there are too many error sources around...

Anyway here are some hints, assuming that your U12 has the productID 
0x0013:

- check the devicenode using sane-find-scanner this tool
  should return the device, lets assume, that it is
/dev/usb/scanner0

- you should have read/write access as user to this device:
ls -l /dev/usb/scanner0 should return this:
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root     180,  48 Jan 19  2001 /dev/usb/scanner0

- check your sane installation, find the sane.d directory (in /etc or
/usr/local/etc...), find the files dll.conf and plustek.conf. In dll.conf
the line plustek should be included without leading #, the plustek.conf
file should at least contain two entries:
[usb]
device /dev/usb/scanner0

That's it. Hope it helps a bit.

Gerhard

BTW: Please only answer to this list!

Which command should I use to turn the lamp on in my plustek u12 ? I'm using
Linux and I need use an IOCTL command included in my driver
Best regards
Norbert

What are you doing? I don't understand.
All is already implemented - use SANE!

Cheers
  Gerhard

On Dienstag, 4. März 2003 15:29, Rpik wrote:
> Which command should I use to turn the lamp on in my plustek u12 ? I'm
> using Linux and I need use an IOCTL command included in my driver
> Best regards
> Norbert