Visioneer doesn't even support their own products on windows beyond what you get in the box. I've had two of their older scanners that worked with win98, they never released drivers for 2000/XP. I ended up throwing them away. For awhile I was using the scanner under linux using vmware, but it was more trouble than it was worth.
There are quite a few scanners supported by sane:
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html
Drivers in Linux depend on two things..
1) the manufacturer releases linux drivers for them (starting to happen more now)
2) the linux driver guys have to reverse engineer the driver.
JD
ec wrote:
>In reality, very few scanners seem to work with the
>exception of one brand. I have to 'go to the darkside'
>to scan.
>
>Thank God the scanner works there.
>
>So don't be disappointed Mike, very few seem to work.
>
>
>
>--- Kurt Granroth <plug-discuss@granroth.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>>On Feb 26, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Major.Mikey wrote:
>>
>>
>>>My brother moved in with me today and he brought
>>>
>>>
>>me a peace-offering, a
>>
>>
>>>scanner. It is a Visioneer OneTouch 5600 USB. A
>>>
>>>
>>google search did not
>>
>>
>>>reveal
>>>whether or not this device works with linux so I
>>>
>>>
>>thought I would
>>
>>
>>>present my
>>>findings to you for any assistance you may be
>>>
>>>
>>willing to provide.
>>
>>
>>>[snip]
>>> hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1.3, assigned
>>>
>>>
>>address 8
>>
>>
>>> usb.c: USB device 8 (vend/prod 0x461/0x367) is
>>>
>>>
>>not claimed by any
>>
>>
>>>active
>>> driver.
>>>
>>>
>>THE resource for scanning under Linux is the SANE
>>project:
>>http://www.sane-project.org
>>
>>There doesn't seem to be a page or listing for the
>>5600 in the quick
>>search I did. However, there are listing for the
>>5300 and 5800 USB and
>>neither work. So, it's very unlikely that the 5600
>>would work.
>>
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