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Hi! Probably someone can help me. I have an Epson Perfection 1650 USB Scanner. I have Suse Linux 8.0 and VMWare installed on it. All is working. When I try to use my scanner in Windows that is installed in VMWare, I got a message about usbscanner. The message is the following: The specified device appears to be claimed by another driver (usbscanner) on the host operating system which means that the device may be in use. VMware Workstation cannot safely take control of the device until the host driver is unloaded. What should I do? Unload the driver? How can I do it? And if after I want to use it in Linux, how to enable it? Thanks Martin
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On Monday 27 May 2002 21:52, Martin Richard wrote:
Hi!
Probably someone can help me. I have an Epson Perfection 1650 USB Scanner. I have Suse Linux 8.0 and VMWare installed on it. All is working. When I try to use my scanner in Windows that is installed in VMWare, I got a message about usbscanner. The message is the following: The specified device appears to be claimed by another driver (usbscanner) on the host operating system which means that the device may be in use. VMware Workstation cannot safely take control of the device until the host driver is unloaded.
What should I do? Unload the driver? How can I do it? And if after I want to use it in Linux, how to enable it?
Thanks Martin ==========================
Martin, Could this be as simple as unplugging the scanner and then replugging? I don't know if this would work, just throwing it out if you haven't tried it yet. I am sure someone else here can comment further. Of course, I wonder also why you would want to use it on both sides anyway? Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
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