finlay Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 My Mustek 1200 UB + worked fine under 9.2 and as far as I know under 10 CE (though I'm not sure about that. I've downloaded the firmware from Henning's SANE page and used MCCto install it. (previously I created adirectory under /usr/shar/sane called gt68xx and copied the file there - this still exists). However when I do get a scanner recognized - it sees it as a Mustek Bear Paw 1200CU - I get the SANE window but no connection to the device. I just get the message "Failed to start scanner Device busy". Anyone any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlay Posted June 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 Further to this: I downloaded the update to init and now I've got a kooka device file on my desktop. Still the same problem though. Here's the weird bit: mandrake ONLY recognises there's a scanner there if I first boot into Windows and run the scanner software...... If I don't do that I get No scanner found. ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 If you can get your scanner to work with Mandrake 9.x before, then I cannot tell what the problem is.... My Epson Perfection 660 requires firmware to be uploaded at start. I am not sure whether your Mustek model requires that or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlay Posted June 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 yes. As I said "I've downloaded the firmware from Henning's SANE page and used MCCto install it. (previously I created adirectory under /usr/shar/sane called gt68xx and copied the file there - this still exists)." I'm flummoxed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted June 28, 2004 Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 According to this page http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/ You can get the firmware "sbfw.usb" and copy it to /usr/share/sane/gt68xx/ Furthermore you can try $ man sane-gt68xx and see if the man page can help you modifying /etc/sane.d/gt68xx.conf in any way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlay Posted June 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 (edited) Agian, as I said: "previously I created adirectory under /usr/shar/sane called gt68xx and copied the file there - this still exists". I'll do man sane-gt68xx and see. Later: However you're right. I had the wrong firmware. I added sbfw.usb to the ones I had in there and the scanner 's now recognised as a Scanexpress UB Plus. Hurrah! BUT.... ONLY IF I FIRST RUN THE SCANNER UNDER WINDOWS. ??? Edited June 28, 2004 by finlay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 The new kernel has SCSi not installed into the kernel. The old one did. You need to add SCSI as a module to get the mustec scanners to work again. Why SCSI was removed I'll never know know but the problem is mentioned on the Sane web site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Are you saying a USB scanner is using the SCSI module? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlay Posted June 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 The new kernel has SCSi not installed into the kernel. The old one did. You need to add SCSI as a module to get the mustec scanners to work again. Why SCSI was removed I'll never know know but the problem is mentioned on the Sane web site. Well lsmod gives me scsi_mod and I'm running kernel 2.6.3-14mdk. There's no append=scsi in lilo. Whatever, the scanner is now working now that I ran it under Windows :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 http://www.sane-project.org/README.linux Sorry it seems I have forgot how to comprend what I read. To many pints last night I guess. It was only one really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Of all the things. I didn't notice my scanner didn't work untill this post. I have the same one. Tried all morning to get it to work. Now right after running this command ( modprobe usb-uhci ) it works. Even after a reboot. Go figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlay Posted July 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 Working away from home- hence delay. Well, I ran modprobe usb-uhci and rebooted - to no avail. I got No device available. Rebooted into Windows, ran scanner, rebooted into Linux - and lo and behold scanner works. It seems that Windows warms up the usb connection - whatever that means. Go figure. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 As a side note, on Mandrake Linux, I connected the USB scanner to the system after Linux finished the booting and login process. Not sure if it could affect the detection process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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