Did you try looking at the output of usbview? It may very well be a chipset problem, it may also be that you are using the wrong controller (uhci instead of ohci) or something along those lines. I have a VIA chipset on the computer that I have the scanner on and it works just fine without any problems at all. I just wished all my hardware would behave under SuSE (bad printer bad bad printer ;-)), but that is just configuration problems, as it works under Mandrake. I am not sure where else you might look, except maybe you may need to update your kernel to the latest rev as their was some odd via support issues in the early kernels, but as I said, I never ran into these. On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Farrell, Thomas wrote:
Hi!
I am starting to believe the ETEQ chipset has no USB support under Linux.
I installed usbmgr last night via YaST2 and attempted configuring it as directed by the SuSE 7.1 HOWTO on the Espon color managment site but no dice. I also tried some of the updated configuration files on the usbmgr homepage and invoking the update command usbdb_updatedbs but still no joy.
I am still greated with the same error messages.
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
The only odd thing that I noticed was after I installed the usbutil package, the usb package was uninstalled by YaST2. It didn't affect the test above but I found it odd.
Any thoughts?
Cheers, Thom