firewire scanner help

[David Williamson]

I didn't get any answers from the list, but I've found the answer
myself, so, for those of you with firewire scanners, note that you have
to modprobe sg before you can use a firewire scanner.

dave

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 23:51 -0500, David Williamson wrote:
> I've got an Epson Perfection 2450 Photo scanner.  It uses USB or
> firewire.  I've been scanning with few problems other than the usual USB
> hassles in Warty, and after 780 or so photos I'm ready for more speed.
> I've plugged into firewire, and get this:
> 
> Dec 12 23:42:20 localhost kernel: scsi4 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394
> SBP-2 Devices
> Dec 12 23:42:21 localhost kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2
> device
> Dec 12 23:42:21 localhost kernel:   Vendor: EPSON     Model: GT-9700
> Rev: 1.03
> Dec 12 23:42:21 localhost kernel:   Type:   Processor
> ANSI SCSI revision: 06
> Dec 12 23:42:22 localhost ieee1394.agent[13540]:      sbp2: already
> loaded
> 
> So, it looks like the firewire subsystem sees the scanner, but scanimage
> -L and sane-find-scanner, and xsane, all find nothing.
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> TIA -- dw
> 
>