this is because there is no sane backend being loaded which supports the scanner. what scanner is it?
allan On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Ulrich Deiters wrote: > Much more interesting than this discussion why sane-find-scanner works > would be a hint what can be done if scanimage -L does not detect > the scanner. I have this problem under Linux with an SCSI scanner > (i.e., sane-find-scanner sees it, but scanimage not). > > Regards, > > Ulrich Deiters > > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera