Wine and scanners

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:11 AM, Joachim Backes
<joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> I have a runnning wine (1.3.10-1.fc14) on my F14 box. There is a Canon
> LIDE30 USB scanner attached to this box running fine under sane. Now I
> want to use it in wine (by vuescan), but vuescan does not see this device.
>
> wine-twain is installed.
>
> Anybody knows how to get it running? Unfortunately I found no utilizable
> hints on the wine faq pages.

If you can't get it to work under WINE and you have decent hardware I
would just run it in windows under a virtual machine. There's many
options there but I like VirtualBox.

Richard