I would like to get either the Syscan Travelscan 464 or the Visioneer Strobe XP 100 working with SANE. Both of these USB scanners seem nearly identical and use the LM9832 chip inside. Neither currently has a Linux SANE driver (or do they? anyone have more info?) ------ When I plug either of these scanners into the USB port on my RedHat 8.0 system, I can see them using the "lsusb" command. By reading various sources, I was able to figure out for the Travelscan 464, specifically, that I needed to add the "options scanner 0xa82 0x4600" to /etc/modules.conf.
After doing that, when I do a "rmmod scanner" and "modprobe scanner" and then "lsmod" it says the scanner module is loaded. OK, so now I am getting this message when I do a "sane-find-scanner": # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that ...[yada yada] found USB scanner (vendor=0x0a82 [SYSCAN], product=0x4600 [TravelScan 460]) at libusb:001:005 # A USB device was detected. This program can't be sure if it's really # a scanner. If it is your scanner, it may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. ...[yada yada] ---------- So I need middleware, so I downloaded the latest sane-backend and the plustek driver code from the Web page (I started there, because it already supports several LM9832 scanners). I did the recommended changes to the source code (plustek-devs.c) in order that it would recognize the Travelscan. Then I did the make, make install, etc. Everything seemed to work OK. But now, when I do a "scanimage -L" now, I just get this message: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). The "sane-find-scanner" command still works as described earlier. ----------------------------------- Someone suggested that I try a "Scanimage -d plustek:usb/dev/usb/scanner0". So, I tried that, then I get this message: scanimage: open of device plustek:usb/dev/usb/scanner0 failed: Error during device I/O --------------------------------------- Any suggestions on what I should try next? Perhaps a different scanner driver? Thanks, - Ted