I'm having an unexpected problem with xsane in two new installs of
Fedora-16/64 bit.
I have not had much luck with suggestions from the Fedora list so
will repeat some of that material here.
I'm not sure if it's a matter of the right driver not being
available or if the old scanner has chosen this time to fail.
This is a new install F-16/64 recently updated. Xsane is unable to
detect the HP Scanjet 5370c scanner. Reports "no devices
available."
It appears to be detected as a USB device:
[bobg at box6 ~]$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0
root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1
root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1
root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1
root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1
root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c408 Logitech, Inc. Marble
Mouse
(4-button)
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:0701 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet
5300c/5370c
I do not usually have trouble getting this scanner working,
normally
just yum install xsane and it's ready to go. Not so today
however
and of course I needed it working half an hour ago!
Need help troubleshooting.
I've installed all I can find under xsane and scanner
drivers in
yumex and still get "no device available" on both F-16/64
computers.
I installed xsane on the second computer just to be sure
it's not
peculiar to this one.
And I tried running as root as suggested, it produces a
warning not to, doing it anyway yields the same result, no
device available
I suppose the scanner could have failed but it was working
recently with F-15.
Am I the only one unable to run an HP scanner on Fedora-16? My
installs are from a live USB/xfce version but I have been
doing it
that way for some time without any problems.
I guess what I need to know is what driver is required for the
HP-5370 scanner and if it is available in Fedora-16 and how to
troubleshoot the problem. In recent years xsane has always just
worked and I have given it little thought which I guess is a sort of
compliment to the developers.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Bob
