Hi!, I have reached my wits end attempting to get my USB scanner working. I would greatly appreciate assistance. I have a Soyo 5EHM, with the lastest BIOS revision, which has an ETEQ chipset (remarked VIA MVP3, revision CE). The lspci section lists it as follows: 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 02). I have used the recommended BIOS settings from the USBman website w/o success. I have verified everythings properly connected to the board and started the system from a cold boot with everything turned on. The scanner itself is an Epson Perfection 636U. I am running SuSE 7.2 with kernel 2.4.4-4GB (stock) with the followinng packages installed: sane-1.0.4-79, xsane-0.74-32, and usb-0.6-7. It's an old install that's been upgraded several times but so far no joy on any USB devices. Some general info: alice:~/logs # ls -l /dev/usbscanner lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Sep 4 19:27 /dev/usbscanner -> /dev/usbscanner0 alice:~/logs # ls -l /dev/usbscanner0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 180, 48 Sep 4 19:27 /dev/usbscanner0 alice:~/logs # more /etc/sane.d/epson.conf # here are examples for how to configure the EPSON backend #scsi EPSON # option color_correction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 # #pio 0x278 #pio 0x378 #pio 0x3BC #scsi EPSON #/dev/scanner usb /dev/usbscanner0 /etc/sane.d/dll.conf has all driver but 'epson' entries commented out as recommended by the backend maintainer. I tried the epson backend shipped with SuSE 7.2 and the latest from the maintainer. alice:~/logs # cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers usbdevfs hub ibmcam 48- 63: usbscanner I have tried loading the scanner module with vendor ID & product ID as well as without them. I get the same results. alice:~/logs # cat /proc/bus/usb/devices T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #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=d400 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 xscanimage epson:/dev/usbscanner0 results in: strace producing: open("/dev/usbscanner0", O_RDWR|O_EXCL) = -1 ENODEV (No such device) AND /var/log/messages producing: Sep 5 09:07:25 alice kernel: scanner.c: open_scanner(0): Unable to access minor data I can produce the same errors by changing all references to /dev/usbscanner0 to /dev/usbscanner and the errors produced change accordingly. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Thom ------------------------------------------------------------------- Common sense is what tells you the earth is flat. -------------------------------------------------------------------