What Distro to use::USB

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Author: Trent Shipley
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Old-Topics: What Distro to use
Subject: What Distro to use::USB
Could you please post a summary of your USB tale of woe that the rest of us
might benefit from it?


> I'm running Red Hat 7 on one of my machines to gain some confidence in
> it. The only problem that I've had is with my scanner, but since I'm
> running a bleeding edge kernel, I don't know where to place the blame.
> (I'm seeing SCSI timeouts with it. OTOH, if I run a version of
> scanimage that I build myself on 6.2, it starts working - for a while;
> and then I'll see the SCSI timeouts again. Last night, I gave up
> trying to figure out the SCSI timeouts and hooked it up via the USB
> port instead. I'd never used USB before and it took me a while to
> figure out which modules needed to be loaded and how to reconfigure
> the SANE configuration file for my HP scanner, etc. Anyway, it's
> working again.)