I have Microtek 3700 Scanmaker usb scanner. I've been reading in the kernel's Documentation/usb/scanner.txt file to figure out what is needed so that the command sane-fine-scanner will see my scanner. There are two interfaces, /dev/usb/scanner0 or /dev/usbscanner0. I'm just realizing that devfs isn't compiled into the kernel by default. So I'm using mknod to create /dev/usbscanner0 and ln -s it to /dev/usbscanner. I was looking through the sane-fine-scanner script, but I wasn't sure what it was looking for. I'm assuming devfsd is the direction that usbscanner is going and moving away from /dev/usbscanner architecture. There was some mention in sane's documentation regarding something called hotpluggable support? I don't know if it is the Compaq support or some other service. When I turn on my scanner, I see the Vendor/Model tags show on console: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x5da/0x40b8) is not claimed by any active driver And when I do a modprobe -a scanner, I see: scanner.c: 0.4.6: USB Scanner Driver scanner.c: open_scanner(0): Unable to access minor data My specs are: Athlon Tbird 1Ghz with usb-uhci USB ports. SuSE kernel 2.4.16-64GB-SMP Microtek 3700 Scanmaker Sane version 1.0.8 (compiled from website source tarball) Libusb 0.1.6 (compiled from website source tarball) Any help would be appreciated. Jonathan Paul Cowherd Linux and Java Administrator Genscape, Inc. Email: jonathan.cowherd@genscape.com Office: (502) 583-3730