What Distro to use::USB

Michael Alexander Green magreen@reesie.digitalf.com
Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:43:31 -0700 (MST)


Which scanner are you using? How did you setup your scanner for USB? Which
config files did you change? What was the syntax you used? Thanks.
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Michael Alexander Green
magreen@reesie.digitalf.com
http://www.reesie.digitalf.com/~magreen

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Trent Shipley wrote:

> 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.)
> 
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