On Sunday 08 December 2002 23:44, Jeric wrote:
Well, I have close enough specs that this might help you too. I have 8.1 and HP 5200c via USB. To set it up I did the following: Yast2>scanner and followed the on screen instructions. Pretty simple, selected my hp 5200c from the list of devices, and whatnot. Got to the test part of it and the test failed (actually the test just sat there dumbfounded) but I clicked finish anyway and saved the configuration. Then I editted the /etc/sane.d/hp.conf as follows:
/dev/usbscanner option connect-device
Then upon running xsane, (on its own and via gimp) it searches for, finds and runs the scanner.
hope that helps.
-jeric
Dear All, Thank you very much for your help. I have my scanner working! Hurrraayyyyy! Since it is an unsupported scanner I had to use the niash test tool. I decided to try the Mandrake rpms supplied from sourceforge that include the niash testtool. I had to configure a couple of files slightly besides and then all worked beautifully! Xsane works very well and fast with this setup. This testtool supports a few unsupported scanners in case yours is one of them. The link is http://sourceforge.net/projects/hp3300backend/. They have done some wonderful work for these scanners. Thanks for your help. Marcia