Why, that's practically "Plug and Play"!!!  :-)

I'll let you know how my install (mandrake 9.0) goes.

anthony


On Wednesday 30 April 2003 10:24 pm, Tom Jones thought they were smart an=
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wrote:
> As you may have seen, I bought an Epson Perfection 1260 on Monday.  I g=
ot
> the thing scanning yesterday, and decided to post what I had to do here=
 in
> case it might save someone else grief later on.
>
> First thing to do, is grab the latest sane source.  As of this writing,
> it's at 1.0.11.  The website is: http://www.mostang.com/sane/
>
> If you've got a scanner other then the 1260, check the compatability li=
st,
> it might be on there.
>
> You'll need to get the sane-backends, sane-frontends, and if you like
> scanning with a GUI frontend, Xsane.  Build packages following the
> instructions.  Everything will end up under /usr/local.
>
> Grab the iscan package from Epson in Japan.  The website is:
> http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/linux.html
>
> Follow the link for ImageSCAN! for Linux. Then follow the download link=
=2E
> You'll need to tell them which product you're using and give them an em=
ail
> address.  Grab the latest iscan package, currently iscan-1.5.0.  If you
> get the rpm, install it with the --nodeps option.  It worked for me,
> anyways.
>
> Once sane and iscan are installed, you'll need to find the lib file
> libsane-epsonkw.so.1.0.6, again that's the number of the current versio=
n.
> Copy it to your /usr/local/lib/sane directory.
>
> In /usr/local/lib/sane, make a backup copy of libsane-epson.so.1.0.11,
> then remove the original.  Make a symlink from libsane-epsonkw.so.1.0.6=
 to
> libsane-epson.so.1.0.11.
>
> Now, go to /usr/local/etc/sane.d.  Edit dll.conf so that there's only t=
wo
> entries, net and epson.
>
> Next, edit epson.conf and make sure that the line /dev/usb/scanner0 is =
not
> commented. Everything else should be.
>
> At this point, cd over to /etc and open up modules.conf.  Add the two
> lines:
> alias char-major-180 scanner
> options scanner vendor=3D0x04b8 product=3D0x011d
>
> Save and exit.
>
> Open up ld.so.conf and add /usr/local/lib, save and exit.
>
> Check to make sure that /dev/usb/scanner0 is there, a character device,
> and has the proper permissions.  If not, mknod /dev/usb/scanner0 c 180 =
48,
> then set permissions.
>
> At this point you can attempt to:
>  # modprobe scanner vendor=3D0x04b8 product=3D0x011d
>
> Then cat /proc/bus/usb/devices and make sure your scanner shows up. Whe=
n
> in doubt, grep the output for Epson. If it's there, cat
> /proc/bus/usb/drivers and look for 48- 63: usbscanner.  If you've got
> that, you're almost there.  If not, reboot.  Hey, you're adding hardwar=
e
> here.  Check again when it comes back up.
>
> Run sane-find-scanner (/usr/local/bin/sane-find-scanner, if you'd
> forgotten).  It should tell you you've got a scanner at /dev/usb/scanne=
r0.
> If not, you can run it verbose (-v, and you can add more -v's to get th=
e
> desired level of verbosity) and look at the error messages to help get =
you
> started on troubleshooting.
>
> Should sane-find-scanner work, even if it's the first time, run scanima=
ge
> -L, your output should look like:
> device `epson:/dev/usb/scanner0' is a Epson GT-7300 flatbed scanner
>
> Yes, that's normal.  You're done.  Happy scanning!
>
> Many thanks to google, the SANE project, and Epson Kowa.
>
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anthony