I am running RedHat 7.2, which came originally with sane 1.0.5. My Microtek X6EL was not detected by sane-find-scanner even though it shows up in /proc/scsi/scsi. In light of the FAQ answer concerning sane 1.0.5 and scanners that do not report a vendor string (which it does not do), I just upgraded to the sane-backends and sane-frontends RPMS from RedHat's Rawhide, which purport to be sane version 1.0.7, but no joy -- it still doesn't see the scanner.
cat /proc/scsi/scsi gives Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: Model: scanner 636EL Rev: 1.20 Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIPCD1024INT-A Rev: 1.1 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 The IOMEGA is a CD burner and it is actually using the ide-scsi interface. Those of us with ATAPI CD burners have no choice but to use this module. The "real" SCSI-relevant modules I have loaded are aic7xxx 136448 1 scsi_mod 109396 5 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi aic7xxx sd_mod] I generated a log file from scanimage but it's not very interesting: scanimage: no SANE devices found Is this vendor-string bug still present, or am I doing something wrong? I have corrected the permissions on /dev/sg0 (but it doesn't work even as root). Sane definitely used to work quite well with this scanner, but I am not sure I have tried it since I attached it to a newer computer with the CD burner. Thanks very much.
