On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Martin Drake wrote: ->Thanks for trying to help. I've not been able to get near the PC for a few ->days to look at the problem again. -> ->Going through your message: -> ->On Saturday 17 March 2001 02:39, you wrote: -> ->> I did it !!! I got my HP Scanjet 4100C USB scanner running !! -> ->Way to go! <SNIP> ->BTW: is there anything special about your /dev/usbscanner? Does it link in ->any way to /dev/usb/scanner0? Do you know what the point of this doubling up ->might be? Nothing special: # ls -l /dev/usbscanner crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 180, 48 Jan 19 03:36 /dev/usbscanner scanimage produces: # scanimage --list-devices device `hp:/dev/usbscanner' is a Hewlett-Packard MODELx flatbed scanner usbview (i.e. /proc/bus/usb/devices): # cat /proc/bus/usb/devices T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 11/900 us ( 1%), #Int= 1, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=9000 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=03f0 ProdID=0101 Rev= 1.00 S: SerialNumber=00MY88S538Q9 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=60 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbscanner E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 16 Ivl= 0ms E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 1 Ivl=250ms # cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers usbdevfs hub hid 48- 63: usbscanner -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com SuSE 7.1 Professional Linux