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[Joe G.]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: 

> It would appear that on Sep 4, joegum did say: 
> 
> Oops.... I guess I wasn't clear. I Xandros, my usb scanner was 
> detected, but not supported by sane. In FC2, it's not detected. 
> Thank you for the link. I'm going to follow-up on your suggestion as 
> well as the other suggestions I've been getting. Even if I can't get 
> the scanner running, I'm no worse off than under Xandros. 
> 
> I'll say this, too. I really don't think newbie should be intimidated 
> by Fedora. It's a very usable and functional OS with world class 
> support from this forum. 
> 
> 
> Not detected?... Did you try this as root? Do you have the right sane 
> backend configured? 
> 
> With FC2 there is a known problem that stops non-root users from
> getting 
> the right permissions on the usb bus. There have been several good 
> explanations (check the archives) but in my case (once I found out how
> to configure sane (including getting a required file from the scanners
> windows driver disk) [I'm using a cheap memorex scanner] I still had
> to 
> fix the bus permission settings before it would work for a non-root
> user. 
> 
> I had to poke around to find that my mount point was
> /proc/bus/usb/001/002 
> (yours might be different) Then I had to (with root permissions)
> execute: 
> "chmod 666 /proc/bus/usb/001/002" before kooka would detect the
> scanner 
> for a normal user accounts. 
> 
> The annoying thing is that I have to do this again after every reboot.
> I sure hope they fix that for FC3. Because remembering to run the 
> /root/bin/fixscan script I put that chmod command in, BEFORE starting
> kooka 
> is a small pain. But it's much better than having to boot windows to
> use 
> the scanner... 

It seems that my scanner isn't supported at all by SANE. (HP 3400c).
Thanks for the tip, though. I'll file it for future memory. -Joe G.