Hi, On 02.02.2010, at 10:09, Zed wrote:
> I am using LinuxMint v8.0 and having difficulty in getting my Benq > S2W 4300U > Scanner to work on my system. > > After installing u176v046.bin in .usr/share/sane/snapscan, and editing > /etc/sane.d/snapscan.con to read: > > #------------------------------ General > ----------------------------------- > > # Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if > # firmware upload is needed by the scanner > firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/u176v046.bin > > # If not automatically found you may manually specify a device name. > > # For USB scanners also specify bus=usb, e.g. > /dev/usb/scanner0 bus=usb > > I get an error message: Failed to start scanner: Error during device > I/O Please remove the line containing the USB device from your config file (/dev/usb/scanner0) - it's no longer useable for systems using libusb and the specified device does not exist on your system. After removing the line the scanner should be found automatically. Regards, Oliver
