OT - Please Help with sane / scanner

[kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com]

On Tuesday 01 November 2005 01:24, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 18:00 -0700, kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
>
> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 November 2005 00:46, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 18:01 -0700, kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi List ;
> > > >
> > > > I bought a Plustek OpticSlim M12 sheetfeed usb scanner.
> > > > If I run sane-find-scanner I see the following:
> > > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x07b3, product=0x0412 [600dpi USB
> > > > Scanner], chip=GT-6816?) at libusb:002:004
> > > >   # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
> > > > supported by
> > > >   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
> > > >
> > > > However if I run scanimage -L I get this:
> > > > No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something
> > > > different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and
> > > > detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read
> > > > the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ,
> > > > manpages).
> > >
> > > It says to run sane-find-scanner.  Did you?
> > >
> > > > I dont know where to go from here...
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for any help
> >
> > Yes. This is what it reports:
> > $ sane-find-scanner
> >
> >   # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make
> > sure that
> >   # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
> >   # Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your operating system.
> >   # If using Linux, try "modprobe sg".
> >
> > found USB scanner (vendor=0x07b3, product=0x0412, chip=GT-6816?) at
> > libusb:002:005
> >   # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
> > supported by
> >   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
> >
> >   # Not checking for parallel port scanners.
> >
> >   # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary
> > ports # can't be detected by this program.
> >
> >   # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once
> > you # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
> > # necessary.
>
> The scanner was found.  Now you need to get it functional.
>
> Pay attention to (at minimum) the recommendations by the tools.  Check
> devices, permissions, etc. at each stage of the process.  You may need
> to create a sym link for /dev/scanner as well.
>
> I have a scanner that is NOT supported AFAIK (last checked a couple
> months ago) so I have not even gotten as far as it seems you have, but
> from experiences with other devices I know that something as innocuous
> as permissions can trip up the best of us.


Thanks for the advice.

Any thoughts on which device to setup a link to since the scaner was found as 
libusb:002:005 ?