[ale] HP and Epson scanners

[Irv Mullins]

On Wednesday 25 June 2003 10:31 am, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
>
> When using RH 7.3 I had this HP 3C scanner working. But it
> took hours of work to download and properly install both the
> correct SANE front-end and back-end software and then get
> the OS to properly locate and identify the SCSI scanner.
> I managed to get it going again when I moved up to RH 8.0, but
> I lost everything when a bad memory board crashed so hard it
> totally screwed up the OS, requiring a reformatting of all
> the partitions and reinstall. Then the upgrade to RH 9.0 required
> further sorting out to get working. In the process the
> SANE package was hosed. I have been able to get the SANE front-end
> back on the machine [I think] but I haven't had the time yet to
> download and try to install the appropriate back-end.
> If I can get a new USB 2.0 card up and recognized by Linux, I
> probably will give up and get a new Epson scanner and toss the
> SCSI card.

Interesting. I have an old HP 3300C which I understood to be unsupported.
Imagine my surprise to find, after loading Mandrake 9.1, that the scanner 
was not only automatically recognized, but it worked perfectly without any 
configuration at all.

Irv


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