scanner not recognized any more

[David Fletcher]

At 10:35 26/04/2006, you wrote:

>Since rebooting my FC4 system with the latest kernel (2.6.16-1.2096_FC4smp)
>my scanner, a HP scanjet 5300C connected through usb, is not recognized
>any more. When plugging it in I get:
>
>usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
>usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>usb 3-1: can't set config #1, error -71
>
>and of course, this results in no device that sane can use. Rebooting
>back in kernel kernel-2.6.15-1.1833 makes the device work again.
>
>However, sane-find-scanner reports:
>   found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0701) at libusb:003:002
>so the device is not completely missing. Only question is: what do I do
>to make sane see it, or, what changed in the last couple of kernel
>updates?
>
>David

David,

I've got a scanner problem too. See bug report:-

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186766

Mine is a Epson scanner but if your hardware allows, would it be 
worth your while do you think to try the same steps as I have to work 
around the problem until it gets fixed?

Dave