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:

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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.

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IMO In case you want to use it. That's the basic difference between Free Software and locked down software. In the case of a web server, I need it for mod_perl and apache Ruben On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:45:36PM +0200, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

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I would like to request that SuSe install gcc by default on all installations

Why should a web/ftp/mail server have gcc installed by default ?

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On 2002.12.16 19:40 Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote:

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ruben Safir wrote:

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IMO In case you want to use it. That's the basic difference between Free Software and locked down software.

Just because it is free software, it should be installed by default?

No I think it should be installed on all systems, only ESPECIALLY on Free Software systems Yes The basic tools to build things should be on the system Ruben -- __________________________ Brooklyn Linux Solutions __________________________ DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS http://fairuse.nylxs.com http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/downtown.html - See the New Downtown Brooklyn.... 1-718-382-0585

If your an ISP you can easily prevnt users from using GCC, but the default configuration on a free software system should include, IMO, the basic tools to compile things, especially the kernel. Ruben

The point being that any computer which has some sort of public access should limit what the public is able to do, and that includes compiling unvetted programs.

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Two things: 1. I agree with Togan Muftuoglu: there is no reason for gcc to be installed by default. In fact, there are many reasons _not_ to have it installed by default. 2. The proper address for requests is feedback@suse.com . Please be aware that without absolutely any reason, the readers of feedback@suse.com will be sure to ignore you. On Monday 16 December 2002 14:49, Ruben I Safir wrote:

I would like to request that SuSe install gcc by default on all installations

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