Scanning with Epson

[glenn]

David Fletcher wrote:
> Just tried plugging my scanner into the fc5t3 machine. Can't get it to do a 
> thing.
> 
> The scanner is an Epson Perfection 2450 Photo, connected to USB.
> 
> There is no scanner entry in the graphics menu, and when I run command xsane 
> nothing happens.
> 
> I also installed iscan, which says "Could not send command to scanner. Check 
> the scanner's status"
> 
> The scanner appears in /dev/ as scanner-usbdev1.x
> 
> Any ideas for me to try?
> 
>

I also have an Epson 2450 scanner and running it on FC5T3.  I use the 
driver that I was using under FC4 (esfw41.bin is from a windoze distro).

In my case I happen to load esfw4esfw41.bin in file in my 
/root/downloads directory, so I made an edit to 
/etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf to provide a link to the driver
   firmware /root/downloads/esfw41.bin

Hope this gets you going.

-- 
Glenn Simpson VE3DSP
Hamilton, Ont