Scanning broken in Fedora ?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 10:04 -0400, Jim wrote:
> On 04/14/2010 01:46 AM, Hiisi wrote:
> > On 04/12/2010 11:16 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> >    
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556218
> >>
> >> Is scanning working for you? Looks like it's broken. Any news of a fix
> >> anytime soon?
> >>
> >>
> >>      
> > Not for me:
> > f12, xsane HP scanjet 3690
> > According to sane-project web-page this model is unsupported:
> > http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/hp-scanjet-3690.html
> > People! Don't buy incompatible hardware!
> >    
> Most all of the Printers and Scanners out on the retail market are 
> unsupported in Linux.

References?

> You normally have to go to the manuf. website and download Linux Drivers.

Define "normally". I've never had to do this.

poc