cannot get USB scanner detected - dapper beta

Nik nik at cheddarcheese.de
Sun May 14 09:27:16 UTC 2006


In article <299ffe0d0605130125j1f87bc2bwfc6fb75022d05869 at mail.gmail.com>,
   OOzy Pal <oozypal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hoping someone can guide me here? I have a HP 6200c usb scanner
> > > attached to my machine that runs fully up-to-date dapper beta.
> >
> > > Ever since the installation of dapper flight 6 (as a fresh install),
> > > I have not been able to get the scanner detected at all.  I mean
> > > "scanimage -L" and "sane-find-scanner" both show nothing detected.
> > > The device itself is not detected, which to me indicates something
> > > amiss with my usb setup?
> >
> > Can you see it using "usbview"?

> In my case yes I can see it marked red. I could copy the text so I
> attached a snapshot.

The HP ScanJet 4400c appears to be an unsupported scanner, at least atm.
I have found some alpha drivers for you at:
http://hp44x0backend.sourceforge.net/index.html

It seems that you are going to have your work cut out to get this device
working :-(

Nik





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