Re: [LI] USB

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Shanker Balan wrote:

> > OK, I throw in the towel.
> 
> So soon???

Been at it for 2 months now!

> The system i hacked is a ASUS P5-AB Motherboard with a HP 5200C USB
> scanner (kernel 2.3.38). The device gets reported in
> /proc/bus/usb/devices with the USB and HP scanner modules loaded but
> sane dies with an input/output error when i run xscanimage. I did manage
> to get 5% of the image once in the preview pane before sane died.

That's about as far as I got.

> I am yet to figure out whether it is a prob with the USB driver or with
> sane's USB support!

I used the latest USB drivers, without success.

> Another quirk i noticed is that if u load the modules *after* the
> scanner goes into sleep mode, the device does not get registered. U need
> to switch the scanner off and on to get it up and kicking!

Yep, that happens to me, too. I have tried it with a HP 4100c, Kodak
DC220, etc.

Atul


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