On Saturday 24 October 2009, Jim wrote:
On 10/24/2009 12:11 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 11:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 24 October 2009, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
>>>> Problem 2 is that the scanner doesn't even check in as shown above.
>>>> OTOH, I also have an Epson 1250u that works flawlessly, but it would
>>>> be nice to get rid of one rather high occupancy item here in the
>>>> coyote.den.
>>>
>>> and this is the strange part: why does it not show the scanner? What
>>> does lsusb return? Does the scanner work under Windows? Not that it
>>> matters much as the scanner seems not supported by Sane right now. But
>>> maybe this is just a matter of adding the usb id....
>>>
>>> Louis
>>
>> The scanner does show in an lsusb -v, but not without the -v, here is a
>> snippet:
>> ==========================
>> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b8:0856 Seiko Epson Corp.
>> Device Descriptor:
>> bLength 18
>> bDescriptorType 1
>> bcdUSB 2.00
>> bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
>> bDeviceSubClass 0
>> bDeviceProtocol 0
>> bMaxPacketSize0 64
>> idVendor 0x04b8 Seiko Epson Corp.
>> idProduct 0x0856
>> bcdDevice 1.00
>> iManufacturer 1 EPSON
>> iProduct 2 USB2.0 MFP(Hi-Speed)
>> iSerial 3 4C454C593037313524
[...]
>> iInterface 5 EPSON Scanner
[...]
>> ============================
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> I suggest to keep an eye on
http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/
> these guys make some linux drivers for Epson devices (they are in some
> way related to Epson). I see that they already have Imagescan for the
> NX415 (actually Image Scan! for Linux& Photo Image Print System Lite)
> Click on the download for "all in ones", select the NX415 and of you
> go.....
>
>
> Good luck|
>
> Louis
These drivers from
http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/
are not of the greatest, so keep check for Gutenprint-cups drivers they do
very good drivers.
Do a yum install gutenprint-cups and see if your printer is in the Printer
selection chart
Unforch:
Package gutenprint-cups-5.2.4-4.fc10.i386 already installed and latest
version
Because if I had my druthers, only gutenprint would ever be installed, all
the others are just so much noise in the cups driver list.
Thanks.
--
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