Hi, I'm cc'ing sane-devel because I'm not an expert for that scanner.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:04:59PM +0200, Wolfram Heider wrote: > On 14.10.03 12:10:02 you wrote in reply to Florian Reichert: > That scanner (i.e. Epson Perfection 1670) is not supported yet but it's being > worked on. > > It seems to me there is a problem with the recognition of the USB chip. > Sane-find-scanner > produces a 'Couldn't determine the type of the USB chip'. Well, nobody has written the code to detect that chip yet. That's not really a problem. Lots of USB chips are not detected by sane-find-scanner. > No kernel driver works Really? The USB kernel driver should be able to detect this scanner. You may need to tell it the ids of the scanner, however: rmmod scanner modprobe scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x011f The next version of the kernel scanner driver will detect the scanner automatically. > and running under libusb also fails. How does it fail? If sane-find-scanner complains about the type of the USB chip, accessing the scanner already worked. > That looks like a lot of work. Do you have any idea how long it can > last to get this model to be supported? No, I'm not involved in supporting that scanner. But have a look at the archive of the sane-devel mailing list. That scanner has been mentioned several times during the last two weeks. Bye, Henning
