Hi Jay, Thanks for the reference, it helped. It seems that the usbscanner driver wasn't getting loaded at boot-time. The solution to the problem was to add the following line (for the Canon N670U") to /etc/modules.conf: options scanner product=0x220d vendor=0x4a9 Then, I made a file called S30scanner and plopped it into /etc/rc.d/rc5.d. The file contains: "modprobe scanner" with a file-mode of 755. Now, both Vuescan and Sane work. It would seem that the problem is with Yast2 which doesn't place the correct "modeprobe scanner" command in the boot files. Vuescan seems to be a fine product and I purchased a license for $40. Regards, Lew Wolfgang On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jay Vollmer wrote:
On Thursday 31 October 2002 09:32, Lewis E. Wolfgang wrote:
Hi Folks,
Does anyone have experience with USB scanners and SuSE 8.0?
I've been trying to connect a Canon "Canoscan N670U" for the past few days with no success. I even downloaded and installed the latest sane/xsane which are reported to work with the Canon using the plustek backend.
The scanner is seen by the kernel and is reported in /proc/bus/usb/devices. I set the vendor and product id's to match in the plustek backend, but still no joy.
Go to <http://www.hamrick.com> and check out their Vuescan software. It doesn't require SANE, and supports many more scanners than SANE does - including the Canon N670U - and offers more flexible scanning options.
The evaluation version is free, and if you choose to buy it, it's about $40. Very much worth it, IMHO.
I'm not connected with Hamrick in any way - except that I'm a very happy customer.