bonebags Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 im trying to set up my mustek ub1200plus scanner, when i try it says that my model is not compatable and i need drivers.ive been to the companys website but cant find any drivers for linux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 Actually you *can* make it work, but likely you will damage it... http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/s...ust/011685.html The only reasonable solution seems being operating it via qemu- or of course buying a better scanner... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonebags Posted March 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 ive been away and been unable to reply to scaresrows reply. ive been to the mustek website and downloaded gt68xx (sane backend) or something but am unsure what i need to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 This is what i did to get my Medio MD9458 to work in Mandriva: Place the firmware file (*.USB) from the Scanner CD in /usr/local/share/sane/gt68xx/ an make it readable for everybody Place the sane-backend in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/ Outcommed every line (# for the line) but not the one fore you're scanner, this is my gt68xx.conf for my “MD9458”: usb 0x05d8 0x4002 override "artec-ultima-2000" firmware "/usr/local/share/sane/gt68xx/ePlus2k.usb" vendor "Medion" model "MD 9458" afe 0x20 0x02 0x22 0x03 0x1f 0x04 Restart the computer Hope it works also for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonebags Posted March 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 (edited) ive been looking on various forums for any information on this scanner and linux, ive found out some info and ive followed it but now im lost.. it told me to download sbfw.usb firmware which i have then it says install into /opt/ directory. (/opt/sbfw.usb) how do i install this file Edited March 28, 2006 by bonebags Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 Open a console, change directory o where the sbfw.usb is placed,, login as root and type: mv sbfw.usb /opt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonebags Posted March 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 Open a console, change directory o where the sbfw.usb is placed,, login as root and type: mv sbfw.usb /opt what do you mean change directory o im newbee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 For example if tthe file is placed in /home/<your namè>/Download you change directory by typing: cd /home/<your namè>/Download Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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