Has anyone ever made scanning work?

[Karl Larsen]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Has anyone ever made scanning actually work with FC6 or FC7? I have 
> been trying in spare time for months, and bought a brand new Epson 
> perfection 2480 Photo scanner because it was supported.
>
> The problem is that I can't find out how to not load the firmware. One 
> person said they had it working, "just don't reload the firmware." The 
> customer help line said no firmware load was needed. But if I comment 
> out the firmware line in snapscan it tells me to edit the file, if I 
> omit the filename it doesn't like that, and if I give it the filename 
> of the firmware it doesn't need (the .bin file) xsane tells me it has 
> a hardware error loading the firmware.
>
> Tried on multiple Linux systems and it fails on all, but works on a 
> Windows system. That pretty much lets out hardware.
>
> This is the third different "supported" scanner I have tried, is there 
> some voodoo to say "don't do that," or is this whole thing still in 
> the stage where it works or not depending on phase of the moon?
>
> The person who had it working has graduated, and wasn't sure what he 
> did to make it work, other than "don't try to load the firmware."
>
    Please share with us how you connect the scanner to your computer, 
and what happens when you connect it. Your test with Windows is good if 
the scanner really worked.



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