On Sunday 17 November 2002 12:49, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: >Hi, > >On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:37:15AM -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote: >> Hi Bill, I think you have a usb scanner. If so look back about >> one day on this list to a message from me with the title Scanner >> Basics. It explains how I got my USB scanner working. > >Your article is nice but doesn't help in this case. If you read > his email completely, you'll find out that his problem isn't the > kernel driver or detection by SANE. > >See: >> > When I try scanimage >image.pnm the console hangs. The trace >> > shows write errors to the scanner > >So there is an i/o error when the scanner is accessed by control >messages. > >Bye, > Henning
Humm, I've got an old tyan S1590 mobo in my gateway machine whose usb chips can't handle anything more complex than a usb mouse. Trying to run a scanner on it gets me a totally locked, hardware reset only, machine. Messy with ext2... This smells like that same sort of a problem to me. Karls too maybe? -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.19% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
